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Support for fuse-overlayfs as alternative to kernel-based overlayfs
BenchExec uses overlayfs for providing a virtualized file-system in its containers (unless configured otherwise by the user). Unfortunately, the overlayfs implementation in the Linux kernel does not support all use cases such as overlayfs for the root directory or triple-nested containers (cf. #776 and #1067). Now BenchExec makes use of the alternative implementation fuse-overlayfs if installed in version 1.10 or newer as an automatic fallback when necessary. This makes BenchExec work again in its default configuration without requiring parameters like --read-only-dir /.
We are glad about this long-awaited feature being contributed by GSoC participant@younghojan! Thanks!
Improve LXCFS integration
If installed, BenchExec uses LXCFS to provide a better virtualization of the environment visible inside the container, for example by virtualizing the uptime. Now we use LXCFS also to virtualize CPU information in /proc/cpuinfo and /sys/devices/system/cpu. This allows the benchmarked process to see more easily how many CPU cores they are allowed to use.