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We need to hold an exclusive lock while carrying out GC, because any
number of processes could be trying to create temporary copies there
at the same time, and if that's happening then it's unsafe for the
GC pass to be looking at the temporary copies concurrently. Only do
the GC pass opportunistically, if we can get an exclusive lock without
waiting.

Conversely, while we're creating the temporary copies, we continue to
take out a non-exclusive lock; but if another process is in the middle
of a GC pass, we want to wait for it instead of just failing.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
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steam-runtime-tools — Steam Runtime integration for the Steam client

The steam-runtime-tools library provides low-level Unix-specific tools and functionality for the Steam client, including the pressure-vessel tool that runs Steam games in containers.

To support multiple architectures (currently only i386 and x86_64 are supported), you will need to build it once for each architecture and install at least the helper tools in /usr/libexec/steam-runtime-tools-0 (the libsteam-runtime-tools-0-helpers package) for every architecture in parallel.

The helper tools are located relative to the shared library, so it's OK to bundle steam-runtime-tools alongside some other stack in this layout:

anything/
    lib/
        x86_64-linux-gnu/
            libsteam-runtime-tools-0.so.0
    libexec/
        steam-runtime-tools-0/
            i386-linux-gnu-*
            x86_64-linux-gnu-*

as long as the program that is linked to libsteam-runtime-tools-0.so.0 can find it (via a RPATH or RUNPATH or by setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable).

pressure-vessel — putting Steam in containers

The pressure-vessel/ subdirectory of this project contains the pressure-vessel utilities, which are used by Steam's Steam Linux Runtime compatibility tool to run games in individual game-specific containers. For background on pressure-vessel and SteamLinuxRuntime, please see: