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-rw-r--r--src/libstore/filetransfer.cc8
-rw-r--r--src/libstore/local-store.cc1
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstore/filetransfer.cc b/src/libstore/filetransfer.cc
index 37e17b397..4621a8217 100644
--- a/src/libstore/filetransfer.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/filetransfer.cc
@@ -544,6 +544,14 @@ struct curlFileTransfer : public FileTransfer
stopWorkerThread();
});
+#ifdef __linux__
+ /* Cause this thread to not share any FS attributes with the main thread,
+ because this causes setns() in restoreMountNamespace() to fail.
+ Ideally, this would happen in the std::thread() constructor. */
+ if (unshare(CLONE_FS) != 0)
+ throw SysError("unsharing filesystem state in download thread");
+#endif
+
std::map<CURL *, std::shared_ptr<TransferItem>> items;
bool quit = false;
diff --git a/src/libstore/local-store.cc b/src/libstore/local-store.cc
index 225a19e1e..1cef50a40 100644
--- a/src/libstore/local-store.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/local-store.cc
@@ -504,6 +504,7 @@ void LocalStore::makeStoreWritable()
throw SysError("getting info about the Nix store mount point");
if (stat.f_flag & ST_RDONLY) {
+ saveMountNamespace();
if (unshare(CLONE_NEWNS) == -1)
throw SysError("setting up a private mount namespace");