fix(3p/nix): do not call vfork

The use of vfork() in Nix is entirely illegal. Quote:

If the process created by vfork() returns from the function in which vfork() was
called, or calls any other function before successfully calling _exit() or
one of the exec*() family of functions, the behavior is undefined.

-- Linux man-pages, release 5.05

Add a TODO to use the higher-performance variants of clone() on Linux when it
is available.

Change-Id: I42370e1568ad6e2d00d70d0b66c8aded8f1288bb
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/1418
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: tazjin <mail@tazj.in>
Reviewed-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
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Kane York 2020-07-23 19:10:51 -07:00 committed by kanepyork
parent 388b5f1abe
commit bd77090703
4 changed files with 12 additions and 21 deletions

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@ -2342,8 +2342,6 @@ void DerivationGoal::startBuilder() {
userNamespaceSync.create();
options.allowVfork = false;
Pid helper = startProcess(
[&]() {
/* Drop additional groups here because we can't do it
@ -2443,7 +2441,6 @@ void DerivationGoal::startBuilder() {
#endif
{
fallback:
options.allowVfork = !buildUser && !drv->isBuiltin();
pid = startProcess([&]() { runChild(); }, options);
}