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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: Test failures in build sandbox
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 01:28:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191003012807.GA52684@ailurophile> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878sq2hd08.fsf@alyssa.is>

Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is> wrote:
> Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is> writes:
> 
> > After some rather extensive debugging, I've determined that most of
> > these are to do with not being able to set the setgid bit.  If I mask it
> > off in git's adjust_shared_perm function, I get down to two failures.  I
> > don't know enough about filesystem permissions to know why this wouldn't
> > be allowed inside the sandbox if it is allowed normally, though.
> 
> Aha!  setuid and setgid permissions are disallowed in Nix builds using
> seccomp[1].
> 
> So, I suppose it would be reasonable for us to either disable the test
> suite, or try to disable just the tests that try to create setgid
> things, unless you're open to adding a check for such a restriction and
> skipping tests if so.  More than reasonable not to, though -- seccomp is
> a nightmare and next to impossible to reasonably support as upstream.

How do "git init --shared" tests work for the Nix git package?  We could
try to follow that as an example...

> 
> [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/5038e1bec43a71c97ae7f8be07218a8a2edbb6a1/src/libstore/build.cc#L2678



  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-03  1:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-15 13:48 [PATCH] t/spawn: fix with unusual env locations Alyssa Ross
2019-09-15 18:55 ` Eric Wong
2019-09-24  1:11   ` Alyssa Ross
2019-09-24  4:01     ` Eric Wong
2019-09-24 22:12       ` Test failures in build sandbox Alyssa Ross
2019-09-26  8:44         ` Eric Wong
2019-10-02 23:23           ` Alyssa Ross
2019-10-03  0:46             ` Alyssa Ross
2019-10-03  1:28               ` Eric Wong [this message]
2019-10-03  1:43                 ` Alyssa Ross
2019-10-03  7:57                   ` [PATCH] t/search: bail out on `git init --shared' failures Eric Wong
2019-10-03 10:15                     ` Alyssa Ross

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