Hello,
While running Python 3’s test suite, we noticed that on some systems
/dev/pts/ptmx is created with permissions 0 (that’s the case with my
Nixpkgs-originating 3.0.43 kernel, but someone with a Debian-originating
3.10-3 reported not having this problem.)
There’s still the problem that people without
CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=y are screwed (as noted in build.cc),
but I don’t see how we could work around it.
Thoughts?
Ludo’.
diff --git a/src/libstore/build.cc b/src/libstore/build.cc
index e846995..53a92c1 100644
--- a/src/libstore/build.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/build.cc
@@ -2079,6 +2079,10 @@ void DerivationGoal::initChild()
if (mount("none", (chrootRootDir + "/dev/pts").c_str(), "devpts", 0, "newinstance,mode=0620") == -1)
throw SysError("mounting /dev/pts");
createSymlink("/dev/pts/ptmx", chrootRootDir + "/dev/ptmx");
+
+ /* Make sure /dev/pts/ptmx is world-writable. With some
+ Linux versions, it is created with permissions 0. */
+ chmod_(chrootRootDir + "/dev/pts/ptmx", 0666);
}
/* Do the chroot(). Below we do a chdir() to the
