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Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment'
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David Thompson |
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Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment' |
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Wed, 07 Oct 2015 21:28:38 -0400 |
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Hello Guix hackers,
In an effort to finish up a patch to add a --container flag to 'guix
environment', I've encountered a serious problem. The --exec flag
allows the user to pass an arbitrary command to be run using 'system'.
Unlike 'system*', 'system' spawns a command interpreter first and passes
the command string in. This is very problematic when using a container,
because there's a very good chance that the command interpreter of the
running Guile process is not mounted inside the container.
So, I think we should switch to using 'system*' instead which will avoid
this hairy issue. However, it's unclear to me how to make this happen.
I wanted to use 'system*' since I first wrote 'guix environment', but I
couldn't figure out how to make the command line syntax work since each
argument needs to be processed separately instead of being bunched up
into a string.
If the above explanation is confusing, the 'sudo' program provides a
good example of the UI I'm after:
sudo guile -c '(do-root-things)'
But for now we're stuck with this:
guix environment --ad-hoc guile -E "guile -c '(do-root-things)'"
Now, we can't actually do exactly what 'sudo' does because 'guix
environment' already recognizes operands as package names, not program
arguments. Perhaps we can use '--' to separate the package list from
the command to run:
guix environment --ad-hoc guile -- guile -c '(do-root-things)'
Does that look okay? Any other ideas?
Thanks,
- Dave
- Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment',
David Thompson <=
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/08
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', Thompson, David, 2015/10/08
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/08
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', Thompson, David, 2015/10/09
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer, 2015/10/08
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', Thompson, David, 2015/10/09
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer, 2015/10/09
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/08
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', Thompson, David, 2015/10/08
- Re: Using 'system*' instead of 'system' in 'guix environment', Thompson, David, 2015/10/09