Patchwork [0/1] Move PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR outside rootfs

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Submitter Peter Seebach
Date Aug. 21, 2012, 6:31 p.m.
Message ID <cover.1345573717.git.peter.seebach@windriver.com>
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git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib seebs/varpseudo

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Peter Seebach - Aug. 21, 2012, 6:31 p.m.
There's a race condition in one of our (non-poky) builds which involves
a rootfs getting deleted while a pseudo process has a db in it open.
This caused me to realize that there existed a pseudo database in a
target filesystem, which made me panic. And we have a few really strange
reports I've never been able to reproduce where target filesystems
under qemu went pear-shaped in ways that look like pseudo suddenly
got really, really, confused.

Like say what would happen if a target could wipe out its own filesystem
permissions, because they were in its rootfs. :P

I haven't tested this super thoroughly, but I can still complete builds
and SDK builds with it, and it makes sense.

The following changes since commit 4ef8960c8d2876914bb78cbdce5fae3c5297e942:
  Khem Raj (1):
        gcc-cross-intermediate, gcc-crosssdk-intermediate: Remove

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib seebs/varpseudo
  http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=seebs/varpseudo

Peter Seebach (1):
  runqemu-export-rootfs and friends: don't put pseudo db in target fs

 .../installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs |    7 +++----
 scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs                      |    2 +-
 scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk                        |   13 +++++++------
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)