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authorMatthew Bauer <mjbauer95@gmail.com>2020-12-03 15:41:59 -0600
committerMatthew Bauer <mjbauer95@gmail.com>2020-12-03 15:41:59 -0600
commit4b9acf4e21a834276b7d061942e7b5d3692662b6 (patch)
tree2092a6ed240c8dbe860295a27a79ea13eb9f6aff /misc
parent9b1824ecbd222b4bdc8fa2b6f345dc55ef4872d0 (diff)
Use posix_spawn_setbinpref_np to advise which architecture to run
When running universal binaries like /bin/bash, Darwin XNU will choose which architecture of the binary to use based on "binary preferences". This change sets that to the current platform for aarch64 and x86_64 builds. In addition it now uses posix_spawn instead of the usual execve. Note, that this does not prevent the other architecture from being run, just advises which to use. Unfortunately, posix_spawnattr_setbinpref_np does not appear to be inherited by child processes in x86_64 Rosetta 2 translations, meaning that this will not always work as expected. For example: { arm = derivation { name = "test"; system = "aarch64-darwin"; builder = "/bin/bash"; args = [ "-e" (builtins.toFile "test" '' set -x /usr/sbin/sysctl sysctl.proc_translated /usr/sbin/sysctl sysctl.proc_native [ "$(/usr/bin/arch)" = arm64 ] /usr/bin/touch $out '') ]; }; rosetta = derivation { name = "test"; system = "x86_64-darwin"; builder = "/bin/bash"; args = [ "-e" (builtins.toFile "test" '' set -x /usr/sbin/sysctl sysctl.proc_translated /usr/sbin/sysctl sysctl.proc_native [ "$(/usr/bin/arch)" = i386 ] echo It works! /usr/bin/touch $out '') ]; }; } `arm' fails on x86_64-compiled Nix, but `arm' and `rosetta' succeed on aarch64-compiled Nix. I suspect there is a way to fix this since: $ /usr/bin/arch -arch x86_64 /bin/bash \ -c '/usr/bin/arch -arch arm64e /bin/bash -c /usr/bin/arch' arm64 seems to work correctly. We may need to wait for Apple to update system_cmds in opensource.apple.com to find out how though.
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