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Alright, let's try to figure out whether this issue is a user-mode or system-mode problem in QEMU.
The user is reporting that when they run certain commands using unshare --pid or Python's portage.process.spawn with unshare_pid=True, the "emerge" program fails. The error message is "qemu: qemu_thread_create: Invalid argument". They're using QEMU version 4.0.0 in user mode.
First, I know that user-mode emulation allows running a different architecture's binaries without full virtualization. System-mode involves running an entire OS with hardware virtualization or other isolation techniques.
The error occurs when trying to unshare the PID namespace. Unsharing PID namespaces is part of containerization and process isolation, which typically affects how processes are managed within their own namespace. Since QEMU in user mode is emulating a CPU and doesn't handle full system resources like networking or device drivers on its own, I suspect that the issue might be related to how QEMU interacts with the host's namespaces.
The problem arises when executing commands inside the chroot environment. The "emerge" tool compiles packages, which involves spawning processes. If QEMU can't correctly handle the PID namespace isolation, it might cause issues when trying to create threads or manage processes within that namespace.
QEMU in user mode relies on the host's system calls for process management, networking, etc. Since the error is about creating a thread, perhaps the way QEMU handles threading doesn't work well with the unshared PID namespace. This suggests it's more of an issue within how QEMU operates at the user level rather than a problem with full system virtualization.
Therefore, this seems like a user-mode related bug because it involves process management and namespaces in the context of running applications through QEMU without full OS isolation.
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