Re: Update on GuixSD containers

[Ludovic Courtès]

"Thompson, David" <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>> "Thompson, David" <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> Yeah, our daemon would do the same thing.  We could maybe even have a
>>> little Guile library that allows one to evaluate arbitrary scheme code
>>> from within the container. :)
>>
>> Actually, something quite easily feasible would be this:
>>
>>   (eval-in-container #~(system* #$evil-program
>>                                 #$(local-file "important-data.txt"))
>>                      #:networking? #f)
>>
>> ... where the container’s store would be populated with just
>> EVIL-PROGRAM and the local file.
>>
>> Food for thought...
>
> Ooooh yeah!  That would be cool.  Though I think we should still spawn
> a dmd process as PID 1 to deal with reaping zombie processes.  We
> could generate a single service that runs the gexp script.  How does
> that sound?

Wouldn’t it be enough to have the Guile process that evaluates the
expression be PID 1 in the container, as is the case in guix-daemon
containers?

Ludo’.