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From: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: nsswitch: do not reload if "/" changes
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 13:35:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xn4kjew0s7.fsf@greed.delorie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25a79acd-f739-83ec-5dcf-ab2bd771f561@redhat.com> (carlos@redhat.com)

"Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com> writes:
> I'm not sure if this is possible though.

The tricky part is you only get *one* opportunity to change "/" so you
can't, for example, setup a pre- and post- testroot, unless - and this
is a maybe - nothing else invokes nsswitch.conf between exec() and
do_test().

And note that we can only test for the st_ino changing case, as creating
an environment where the testroot is "/" in a mounted filesystem (and
thus has st_ino 2 but a different st_dev) is way outside of glibc's
testsuite's scope.  Not a big deal IMHO.

Note that inside the testroot we should be able to do a simpler form of
chroot, though.  I don't think any test has tried this yet.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-18 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-16  0:59 DJ Delorie
2021-01-16 10:52 ` Florian Weimer
2021-01-18  1:13   ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-18 10:47     ` Florian Weimer
2021-01-18 18:20       ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-19 16:37         ` Florian Weimer
2021-01-22 19:10           ` [v2] " DJ Delorie
2021-01-26  9:58             ` Florian Weimer
2021-01-26 16:19               ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-26 16:30                 ` Florian Weimer
2021-01-26 16:47                   ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-27 17:28                     ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-01-27 18:44                       ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-28  0:31                         ` Joseph Myers
2021-01-28  0:34                           ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-28  0:39                             ` Joseph Myers
2021-01-28  1:15                               ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-18 12:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-01-18 12:53   ` Florian Weimer
2021-01-18 18:27   ` DJ Delorie
2021-01-18 15:59 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-01-18 16:53   ` Florian Weimer
2021-01-19 14:30     ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-01-19 14:40       ` Florian Weimer
2021-01-18 18:35   ` DJ Delorie [this message]

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