On 2024-08-05 15:55, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Mon, 05 Aug 2024 at 14:52:04 +0200, Paride Legovini wrote: >> On doing 2>/dev/null, I believe that a-v-unshare runs tests without a >> populated /dev > > If true, then that's an important bug in a-v-unshare. Our testbeds > should all be tolerably realistic systems that meet the minimum "API" > requirements for a reasonable Debian chroot/container.
OK, what I said is not really true: autopkgtest-virt-unshare does this: https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/-/blob/30c9c0a589aa49bc86649b825b29a1be647d8c26/virt/autopkgtest-virt-unshare#L128 and it is during that early useradd call that /dev/null does not exist. (I know because this causes issues in Ubuntu, with its patched useradd assuming /dev/null exists.) For the actual test run, unshare-helper takes care of creating /dev/null and others: https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/-/blob/30c9c0a589aa49bc86649b825b29a1be647d8c26/virt/autopkgtest-virt-unshare#L141 So: no need to worry about >/dev/null redirects in create-normal-user. -- Paride
