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Had to replace symlink with ro-bind to get minimal example to work

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
linux, shell

Research direction

Start with the minimal example in README.md at the linked lines and compare it with demos/bubblewrap-shell.sh. Reproduce the reported bwrap: execvp bash: No such file or directory result using --symlink, then read issue #200 for related context. Done means explaining the difference between --symlink and --ro-bind here and correcting the example or documenting its limitation.

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Description

README currently provides the following minimal example using --symlink for lib:

https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap/blob/9ca3b05ec787acfb4b17bed37db5719fa777834f/README.md?plain=1#L119-L126

As far as I understand it's based on demos/bubblewrap-shell.sh which also uses --symlink.

I kept getting

bwrap: execvp bash: No such file or directory

Which was resolved after replacing --symlink with --ro-bind. I believe this is connected to #200.

What's the downside? Thank you ❤️

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