~ruther/guix-local: system: activate-ptrace-attach: Handle kernels without YAMA support.

15f0de0581987c539f86012bf524559e283f5942 — Mark H Weaver 11 years ago 57e95b2

system: activate-ptrace-attach: Handle kernels without YAMA support.

* gnu/build/activation.scm (activate-ptrace-attach): Check for the existence
  of /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope before trying to write to it.

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1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

M gnu/build/activation.scm

M gnu/build/activation.scm => gnu/build/activation.scm +5 -3

@@ 369,9 369,11 @@ found in Linux 3.4 onward that prevents users from attaching to their own
 processes--see Yama.txt in the Linux source tree for the rationale.  This
 sounds like an unacceptable restriction for little or no security
 improvement."
-  (call-with-output-file "/proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope"
-    (lambda (port)
-      (display 0 port))))
+  (let ((file "/proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope"))
+    (when (file-exists? file)
+      (call-with-output-file file
+        (lambda (port)
+          (display 0 port))))))
 
 
 (define %current-system