Hi Roland,
> If possible, I would like to see something like:
> * If the return value of unsquashfs is non-zero, look whether stderr
> only contains lines like
> 'create_inode: could not create character device ./dev/console, because
> you're not superuser!'
> * If that is the case, resume
On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 04:01:34PM +0200, Roland Clobus wrote:
> > (A side question: can you confirm whether diffoscope is running as
> > root or not in your particular Jenkins test? I don't want to
> > misinterpret the logs.)
> I'm 99.9% sure that I'm not running as root, because I would have
Hi Roland,
> > So it appears to me that different code is activated for regular users
> > and root.
In addition to the filesystem device difference (discussed below), the
other highly relevant difference is that processes run as root are
terminated by the OOM killer with a slower priority.
This
Answering my own mail.
On 11/08/2021 11:49, Roland Clobus wrote:
> So it appears to me that different code is activated for regular users
> and root.
I think I've found the cause for the different code paths.
The squashfs image contains devices, which can only be extracted as root.
Output of
On 15/07/2021 18:41, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 08:31:48PM +0200, Roland Clobus wrote:
>> The difference between these two files is located inside a squashfs
>> file, which is inside the iso file.
>> During the invocation of diffoscope, diffoscope needs lots of memory
>>
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