Re: [Plash] Using plash to overlay a filesystem

[Mark Seaborn]

I wrote:

> Thomas Leonard <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > 2008/7/11 Mark Seaborn <address@hidden>:
> 
> > > PlashGlibc has a facility for faking the UID/GID returned from
> > > getuid() and similar calls.  You need to use that.  See
> > > set_fake_uids() in python/plash/pola_run_args.py, which pola-run uses.
> > > It sets the environment variables PLASH_FAKE_{E,}{U,G}ID.
> > 
> > Using 1.19, I see these variables get set, but I still get:
> 
> It turns out this is a regression and I broke the UID/GID faking
> facility when I changed the PlashGlibc build process (in
> http://plash.beasts.org/wiki/Story6).  I've filed a bug
> (http://plash.beasts.org/wiki/PlashIssues/FakeUidNotWorking) and I'll
> fix it.

This is now fixed.  Can you try out the autobuild packages?  I suspect
that the O_CLOEXEC issue will not cause any problems at the moment
beyond producing warning messages.

Mark