Running nginx on ARM64 Unikraft

[razvanvirtan]

After applying changes from @justin-he PR unikraft/unikraft#208 we can build and run nginx on an ARM64 emulated or physical environment, using the staging version of Unikraft, but we need to use this workaround:

diff --git a/src/core/nginx.c b/src/core/nginx.c
index 9fcb0eb..3afcb66 100644
@@ -1101,18 +1103,11 @@ ngx_core_module_init_conf(ngx_cycle_t *cycle, void 
*conf)

     if (ccf->user == (uid_t) NGX_CONF_UNSET_UINT && geteuid() == 0) {
         struct group   *grp;
-       struct passwd  *pwd;

         ngx_set_errno(0);
-       pwd = getpwnam(NGX_USER);
-       if (pwd == NULL) {
-           ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_EMERG, cycle->log, ngx_errno,
-                         "getpwnam(\"" NGX_USER "\") failed");
-           return NGX_CONF_ERROR;
-       }

         ccf->username = NGX_USER;
-       ccf->user = pwd->pw_uid;
+       ccf->user = 0;

         ngx_set_errno(0);
         grp = getgrnam(NGX_GROUP);
@@ -1193,7 +1188,6 @@ ngx_set_user(ngx_conf_t *cf, ngx_command_t *cmd, void 
*conf)
     ngx_core_conf_t  *ccf = conf;

     char            *group;
-    struct passwd    *pwd;
     struct group     *grp;
     ngx_str_t  *value;

@@ -1214,14 +1208,8 @@ ngx_set_user(ngx_conf_t *cf, ngx_command_t *cmd, void 
*conf)

     ccf->username = (char *) value[1].data;

     ngx_set_errno(0);
-    pwd = getpwnam((const char *) value[1].data);
-    if (pwd == NULL) {
-       ngx_conf_log_error(NGX_LOG_EMERG, cf, ngx_errno,
-                          "getpwnam(\"%s\") failed", value[1].data);
-       return NGX_CONF_ERROR;
-    }

-    ccf->user = pwd->pw_uid;
+    ccf->user = 0;

     group = (char *) ((cf->args->nelts == 2) ? value[1].data : value[2].data);

and comment the following line in fs0/nginx/conf/nginx.conf: error_log logs/error.log debug;

[nderjung]

Hi @razvanvirtan, thanks for opening the issue :)

If possible, can you please open a PR with this solution?

Thanks!

[razvanvirtan]

Yes, I'll try to integrate it asap.

[razvand]

@razvanvirtan , what is the state of this? Is this still an issue?