[Nix-dev] Installing in $HOME and datadir

[Pjotr Prins]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 12:41:40PM +0300, Paul Colomiets wrote:
> Hm, that's nice. But given the PRoot works using ptrace, it's probably
> very slow, right?

Good point. I'll need to see what the impact is on individual
applications.

> Also I think it's nicer and easier to setup similar thing using user
> namespaces which are available in linux kernel >= 3.8. It's possible
> with LXC or with just "unshare" utility from coreutils and a couple of
> lines of bash.

That sounds good. Reality is that most cluster environments are still
on 2.6.x.

Pj.