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Eelco Dolstra 1db38ae81b When using chroots, use a private PID namespace
In a private PID namespace, processes have PIDs that are separate from
the rest of the system.  The initial child gets PID 1.  Processes in
the chroot cannot see processes outside of the chroot.  This improves
isolation between builds.  However, processes on the outside can see
processes in the chroot and send signals to them (if they have
appropriate rights).

Since the builder gets PID 1, it serves as the reaper for zombies in
the chroot.  This might turn out to be a problem.  In that case we'll
need to have a small PID 1 process that sits in a loop calling wait().
2012-06-25 15:45:16 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra b006a31d52 Drop the externals directory
Nix now requires SQLite and bzip2 to be pre-installed.  SQLite is
detected using pkg-config.  We required DBD::SQLite anyway, so
depending on SQLite is not a big problem.

The --with-bzip2, --with-openssl and --with-sqlite flags are gone.
2012-03-18 23:54:57 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 35355fc1fc Set the close-on-exec flag on file descriptors 2012-03-05 20:29:00 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra bd013b6f98 On Linux, make the Nix store really read-only by using the immutable bit
I was bitten one time too many by Python modifying the Nix store by
creating *.pyc files when run as root.  On Linux, we can prevent this
by setting the immutable bit on files and directories (as in ‘chattr
+i’).  This isn't supported by all filesystems, so it's not an error
if setting the bit fails.  The immutable bit is cleared by the garbage
collector before deleting a path.  The only tricky aspect is in
optimiseStore(), since it's forbidden to create hard links to an
immutable file.  Thus optimiseStore() temporarily clears the immutable
bit before creating the link.
2012-02-15 01:31:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra d5a5a83ad4 Use data() instead of c_str() where appropriate 2012-02-09 18:27:45 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b33da599c5 * In the garbage collector, delete invalid paths before deleting
unreachable paths.  This matters when using --max-freed etc.:
  unreachable paths could become reachable again, so it's nicer to
  keep them if there is "real" garbage to be deleted.  Also, don't use
  readDirectory() but read the Nix store and delete invalid paths in
  parallel.  This reduces GC latency on very large Nix stores.
2011-12-22 15:55:53 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 273b288a7e * importPath() -> importPaths(). Because of buffering of the input
stream it's now necessary for the daemon to process the entire
  sequence of exported paths, rather than letting the client do it.
2011-12-16 22:31:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 8d3dfa2c17 * Avoid expensive conversions from char arrays to STL strings. 2011-12-16 21:29:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e0bd307802 * Make the import operation through the daemon much more efficient
(way fewer roundtrips) by allowing the client to send data in bigger
  chunks.
* Some refactoring.
2011-12-16 19:44:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 78598d06f0 * Clean up exception handling. 2011-12-16 15:45:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5a1b9ed0aa * Refactoring: move sink/source buffering into separate classes.
* Buffer the HashSink.  This speeds up hashing a bit because it
  prevents lots of calls to the hash update functions (e.g. nix-hash
  went from 9.3s to 8.7s of user time on the closure of my
  /var/run/current-system).
2011-12-15 16:19:53 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a3e0656cbb * Buffer reads in FdSource. Together with write buffering, this
significantly cuts down the number of syscalls (e.g., for "nix-store
  -qR /var/run/current-system" via the daemon, it reduced the number
  of syscalls in the client from 29134 to 4766 and in the daemon from
  44266 to 20666).
2011-12-15 12:32:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 3a48282b06 * Buffer writes in FdSink. This significantly reduces the number of
system calls / context switches when dumping a NAR and in the worker
  protocol.
2011-12-14 23:30:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 49f59dceca * Move parseHash16or32 into libutil, and use in nix-hash. 2011-12-02 11:47:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 543988572e * Sync with the trunk. 2011-02-09 12:25:53 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès 3854fc9b42 Remove useless <config.h> inclusion from public header. 2011-01-14 13:55:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d787285af9 * nix-instantiate: return exit status 100 to denote a permanent build
failure.  The build hook can use this to distinguish between
  transient and permanent failures on the remote side.
2010-12-13 16:53:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 100becf8d1 * createDirs(path): if path already exists, make sure it's a
directory.
* Provide a C++ wrapper around lstat().
2010-12-13 13:32:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a3883cbd28 * Store the size of a store path in the database (to be precise, the
size of the NAR serialisation of the path, i.e., `nix-store --dump
  PATH').  This is useful for Hydra.
2010-11-16 17:11:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra fb9368b5a0 * Sync with the trunk. 2010-11-16 12:49:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 705868a8a9 * Make sure that config.h is included before the system headers,
because it defines _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.  Without this, on 
  OpenSolaris the system headers define it to be 32, and then 
  the 32-bit stat() ends up being called with a 64-bit "struct 
  stat", or vice versa.

  This also ensures that we get 64-bit file sizes everywhere.

* Remove the redundant call to stat() in parseExprFromFile().
  The file cannot be a symlink because that's the exit condition
  of the loop before.
2010-10-04 17:55:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 71dfe4b90b * Sync with the trunk. 2010-10-04 11:44:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 450837bcc8 * In printMsg(), ignore failing writes to stderr if we're in an
exception handler, otherwise throw an exception.  We need to ignore
  write errors in exception handlers to ensure that cleanup code runs
  to completion if the other side of stderr has been closed
  unexpectedly.
2010-10-04 11:23:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 80e722278c * When using the build hook, distinguish between the stderr of the
hook script proper, and the stdout/stderr of the builder.  Only the
  latter should be saved in /nix/var/log/nix/drvs.
* Allow the verbosity to be set through an option.
* Added a flag --quiet to lower the verbosity level.
2010-08-30 14:53:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 766f708418 * Experimental feature: allow a derivation to tell the build hook that
it requires a certain feature on the build machine, e.g.

    requiredSystemFeatures = [ "kvm" ];

  We need this in Hydra to make sure that builds that require KVM
  support are forwarded to machines that have KVM support.  Probably
  this should also be enforced for local builds.
2010-08-27 13:18:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 587dc8aa00 * Sync with the trunk. 2010-08-04 17:48:29 +00:00
Peter Simons bcec46057c src/libutil/util.cc: include <limit.h> to ensure that PATH_MAX is defined 2010-06-24 17:51:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra aa45027818 * Sync with the trunk. 2010-05-12 22:13:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 83dfa89870 * Sync with the trunk. 2010-05-07 14:46:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a0e3b84fac * Revert r15436. This was a workaround for a bug in btrfs which seems
to have been fixed now.
2010-05-04 12:42:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d66ea83a76 * Sync with the trunk. 2010-04-20 09:20:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra efc7a579e8 * Don't use the ATerm library for parsing/printing .drv files. 2010-04-19 13:46:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 816dd3f061 * Remove more obsolete code. 2010-04-14 12:49:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 0d272fca79 * Remove some obsolete functions. 2010-04-12 23:31:47 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès eb07a4f1ee Escape `>' signs in the XML output.
* src/libutil/xml-writer.cc (nix::XMLWriter::writeAttrs): Escape `>'.
2010-03-31 08:29:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e8f7978274 2010-03-23 19:19:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 141294ff38 * Clean up error messages in killUser(). 2010-03-19 11:36:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4c356acd04 * In `nix-store --export', abort if the contents of a path has
changed.  This prevents corrupt paths from spreading to other
  machines.  Note that checking the hash is cheap because we're
  hashing anyway (because of the --sign feature).
2010-03-09 14:32:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra fb6e223ddc * Synced with the trunk. 2010-03-04 12:15:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 594eaddd11 * When using the included sqlite/aterm libraries, build with
--enable-shared.
* In libutil/libstore/libexpr etc., link against sqlite and aterm.
* Some more header file hygiene.
2010-03-02 15:58:13 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 84a4dd5ff0 * Don't use fdatasync since it doesn't work on Snow Leopard.
* Don't refer to config.h in util.hh, because config.h is not
  installed (http://hydra.nixos.org/build/303053).
2010-02-24 15:46:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5954eadf67 * Remove the fdatasync check since it's no longer needed. 2010-02-24 12:16:50 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès 20186a4079 Don't rely on `PATH_MAX' on GNU. 2010-02-10 15:55:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4bbbe25802 * Remove most Cygwin-specific code. Cygwin 1.7 implements advisory
POSIX locks, and simulates Unix-style file deletion semantics
  sufficiently.  Note that this means that Nix won't work on Cygwin
  1.5 anymore.
2010-02-02 15:28:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 2723d9b56e * If fdatasync() isn't available, use fsync(). 2010-02-02 11:57:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 07ffdc2862 * Added an option "fsync-metadata" to fsync() changes to
/nix/var/nix/db.
* Removed the function writeStringToFile since it does (almost) the
  same thing as writeFile.
2010-01-29 12:22:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ef92a14bfe * Include config.h before the C library headers, because it defines
_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64.  Without it, functions like stat() fail on
  large file sizes.  This happened with a Nix store on squashfs:

  $ nix-store --dump /tmp/mnt/46wzqnk4cbdwh1dclhrpqnnz1icak6n7-local-net-cmds > /dev/null
  error: getting attributes of path `/tmp/mnt/46wzqnk4cbdwh1dclhrpqnnz1icak6n7-local-net-cmds': Value too large for defined data type

  $ stat /tmp/mnt/46wzqnk4cbdwh1dclhrpqnnz1icak6n7-local-net-cmds
  File: `/tmp/mnt/46wzqnk4cbdwh1dclhrpqnnz1icak6n7-local-net-cmds'
  Size: 0               Blocks: 36028797018963968 IO Block: 1024   regular empty file

  (This is a bug in squashfs or mksquashfs, but it shouldn't cause Nix
  to fail.)
2009-12-17 14:12:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 945d8218fb * Build correctly against newer ATerm releases. Fixes "error: 'union'
tag used in naming 'struct _ATerm'".
2009-12-16 15:29:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 13618b191e * Grrr. 2009-11-24 13:28:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra aa5a768720 * GCC 4.4 is stricter about the EOF macro
(http://hydra.nixos.org/build/156340).
2009-11-24 12:56:26 +00:00