1 /* Entering namespaces for test case isolation.
2 Copyright (C) 2016-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
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19 #ifndef SUPPORT_NAMESPACE_H
20 #define SUPPORT_NAMESPACE_H
23 #include <sys/cdefs.h>
27 /* Attempts to become root (or acquire root-like privileges), possibly
28 with the help of user namespaces. Return true if (restricted) root
29 privileges could be attained in some way. Print diagnostics to
32 Note that this function generally has to be called before a process
33 becomes multi-threaded, otherwise it may fail with insufficient
34 privileges on systems which would support this operation for
35 single-threaded processes. */
36 bool support_become_root (void);
38 /* Return true if this process can perform a chroot operation. In
39 general, this is only possible if support_become_root has been
40 called. Note that the actual test is performed in a subprocess,
41 after fork, so that the file system root of the original process is
43 bool support_can_chroot (void);
45 /* Enter a network namespace (and a UTS namespace if possible) and
46 configure the loopback interface. Return true if a network
47 namespace could be created. Print diagnostics to standard output.
48 If a network namespace could be created, but networking in it could
49 not be configured, terminate the process. It is recommended to
50 call support_become_root before this function so that the process
51 has sufficient privileges. */
52 bool support_enter_network_namespace (void);
54 /* Enter a mount namespace and mark / as private (not shared). If
55 this function returns true, mount operations in this process will
56 not affect the host system afterwards. */
57 bool support_enter_mount_namespace (void);
59 /* Return true if support_enter_network_namespace managed to enter a
61 bool support_in_uts_namespace (void);
63 /* Invoke CALLBACK (CLOSURE) in a subprocess created using fork.
64 Terminate the calling process if the subprocess exits with a
65 non-zero exit status. */
66 void support_isolate_in_subprocess (void (*callback) (void *), void *closure);
68 /* Describe the setup of a chroot environment, for
69 support_chroot_create below. */
70 struct support_chroot_configuration
72 /* File contents. The files are not created if the field is
74 const char *resolv_conf; /* /etc/resolv.conf. */
75 const char *hosts; /* /etc/hosts. */
76 const char *host_conf; /* /etc/host.conf. */
77 const char *aliases; /* /etc/aliases. */
80 /* The result of the creation of a chroot. */
83 /* Path information. All these paths are relative to the parent
86 /* Path to the chroot directory. */
89 /* Paths to files in the chroot. These are absolute and outside of
91 char *path_resolv_conf; /* /etc/resolv.conf. */
92 char *path_hosts; /* /etc/hosts. */
93 char *path_host_conf; /* /etc/host.conf. */
94 char *path_aliases; /* /etc/aliases. */
97 /* Create a chroot environment. The returned data should be freed
98 using support_chroot_free below. The files will be deleted when
99 the process exits. This function does not enter the chroot. */
100 struct support_chroot *support_chroot_create
101 (struct support_chroot_configuration);
103 /* Deallocate the chroot information created by
104 support_chroot_create. */
105 void support_chroot_free (struct support_chroot *);