From d232870b2896e4595419e3ca0a8037ed21162ebf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes 'josch' Schauer <josch@mister-muffin.de>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 20:09:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] check whether newuidmap and newgidmap are available

---
 mmdebstrap | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mmdebstrap b/mmdebstrap
index a60e979..f40dd5c 100755
--- a/mmdebstrap
+++ b/mmdebstrap
@@ -109,6 +109,16 @@ sub test_unshare() {
     if (($? >> 8) != 0) {
 	return 0;
     }
+    # if newuidmap and newgidmap exist, the exit status will be 1 when
+    # executed without parameters
+    system "newuidmap 2>/dev/null";
+    if (($? >> 8) != 1) {
+	return 0;
+    }
+    system "newgidmap 2>/dev/null";
+    if (($? >> 8) != 1) {
+	return 0;
+    }
     return 1;
 }
 
@@ -1357,6 +1367,22 @@ sub main() {
 	    if ($EFFECTIVE_USER_ID == 0) {
 		print STDERR "I: cannot use unshare mode when executing as root\n";
 	    }
+	    system "newuidmap 2>/dev/null";
+	    if (($? >> 8) != 1) {
+		if (($? >> 8) == 127) {
+		    print STDERR "I: cannot find newuidmap\n";
+		} else {
+		    print STDERR "I: newuidmap returned unknown exit status\n";
+		}
+	    }
+	    system "newgidmap 2>/dev/null";
+	    if (($? >> 8) != 1) {
+		if (($? >> 8) == 127) {
+		    print STDERR "I: cannot find newgidmap\n";
+		} else {
+		    print STDERR "I: newgidmap returned unknown exit status\n";
+		}
+	    }
 	    my $procfile = '/proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone';
 	    open(my $fh, '<', $procfile) or die "failed to open $procfile: $!";
 	    chomp(my $content = do { local $/; <$fh> });