When running a read-only file system, we might not be able to create
/var/log/journal. Do not fail on this, unless actually requested by the
--link-journal options.
$ systemd-nspawn --image=image.squashfs ...
All over the place we define local variables for the various sockopts
that take a bool-like "int" value. Sometimes they are const, sometimes
static, sometimes both, sometimes neither.
Let's clean this up, introduce a common const variable "const_int_one"
(as well as one matching "const_int_zero") and use it everywhere, all
acorss the codebase.
With this change almost all log messages that are suppressed through
--quiet are not actually suppressed anymore, but simply downgraded to
LOG_DEBUG. Previously we did it this way for some log messages and fully
suppressed them for others. With this it's pretty much systematic.
Inspired by #10122.
This is a bit like the info link in most of GNU's --help texts, but we
don't do info but man pages, and we make them properly clickable on
terminal supporting that, because awesome.
I think it's generally advisable to link up our (brief) --help texts and
our (more comprehensive) man pages a bit, so this should be an easy and
straight-forward way to do it.
One of the things that tmpfs_patch_options does is take an (optional) UID,
and insert "uid=${UID},gid=${UID}" into the options string. So we need a
uid_t argument, and a way of telling if we should use it. Fortunately,
that is built in to the uid_t type by having UID_INVALID as a possible
value.
So this is really a feature that requires one argument. Yet, it is somehow
taking 4! That is absurd. Simplify it to only take one argument, and have
that trickle all the way up to mount_all()'s usage.
Now, in may of the uses, the argument becomes
uid_shift == 0 ? UID_INVALID : uid_shift
because it used to treat uid_shift=0 as invalid unless the patch_ids flag
was also set. This keeps the behavior the same. Note that in all cases
where it is invoked, if !use_userns (sometimes called !userns), then
uid_shift is 0; we don't have to add any checks for that.
That said, I'm pretty sure that "uid=0" and not setting "uid=" are the
same, but Christian Brauner seemed to not think so when implementing the
cgns support. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/3589
nspawn as it is now is a generally useful tool, hence let's drop the
comments about it being useful for debug and so on only.
The new wording just makes the first sentence of the main page also the
summary.
These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With
SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information
about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the
per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others
is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves
all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could
go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship
information.
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.
hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
This is mostly fall-out from d1a1f0aaf0,
however some cases are older bugs.
There might be more issues lurking, this was a simple grep for "%m"
across the tree, with all lines removed that mention "errno" at all.
Let's rework error handling a bit in image_find() and friends: when we
can't find an image, return -ENOENT rather than 0. That's better as
before we violated the usual rule in our codebase that return parameters
are initialized when the return value is >= 0 and otherwise not touched.
This also makes enumeration and validation a bit more strict: we'll only
accept ".raw" as suffix for regular files, and filter out this suffix
handling on directories/subvolumes, where it makes no sense.
This distuingishes two different classes of images, one for the purpose
of npsawn-like containers, i.e. "machines", and one for portable
services.
This distinction is mostly about search paths. We look for machine
images in /var/lib/machines and for portable images in
/var/lib/portables.
We already do this kind of validation in nspawn when we operate on a
plain directory, let's also do this on raw images under the same
condition: that we are about too boot the image. Also, do this when we
are about to read OS metadata from it.
If we log to the pty that is configured as stdin/stdout/stderr of the
container too early we risk filling it up in full before we start
processing the pty from the parent process, resulting in deadlocks.
Let's hence keep a copy of the original tty we were started on before
setting up stdin/stdout/stderr, so that we can log to it, and keep using
it as long as we can.
Since the kernel's pty internal buffer is pretty small this actually
triggered deadlocks when we debug logged at lot from nspawn's child
processes, see: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/9024#issuecomment-390403674
With this change we won't use the pty at all, only the actual payload we
start will, and hence we won't deadlock on it, ever.
Let's make use of log_set_open_when_needed() in nspawn too, i.e. at the
point where we close logging because we are about to rearrange fds,
let's automatically reopen the logging fds when we need them, the same
way as we do that in the service manager. This makes things simpler and
more robust.
Let's separate the loading of the settings object and the merging into
our arg_xyz fields into two.
This will become particularly useful when we eventually are able to load
settings from OCI runtime files in addition to .nspawn files.
