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Copies the currently running program into a temporary location
This crate copies the currently running executable into a temporary location and returns the path to that executable. This allows you to (for example):
- Compile a program statically using something like musl
- Create a copy of that program while it’s running
- Run Docker from your original program, mounting the copy as a Docker volume mount
- Run the copied program from within the Dockerized environment.
Because this library uses NamedTempFile
via Builder
to generate a temporary location,
the following security restrictions apply to Replicate
:
- The copy has a short lifetime and your temporary file cleaner is sane (doesn’t delete recently accessed files).
- You trust every user on your system (i.e. you are the only user).
- You have disabled your system’s temporary file cleaner or verified that your system doesn’t have a temporary file cleaner.
Structs
A temporary copy of the running executable.