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Alois Wohlschlager f3ed72f30b tests/functional: include mount and PID namespaces in the sandbox check
Running the sandbox (as unprivileged user) requires all of user, mount and PID
namespacing. Previously, only the user namespacing support was checked.
Unfortunately, newer Ubuntu kernels impose restrictions on capabilities within
unprivileged user namespaces [1]; as observed by experimentation, in particular
(re-)mounting filesystems or changing mount propagation is prohibited even
inside a mount namespace, making it impossible to use the Lix sandbox. So any
tests requiring sandboxing should check for this breakage and be skipped if
detected.

`unshare --mount` performs the same problematic operations, so that's what gets
used for the test. PID namespaces are included as well for completeness, even
though currently no instance of breakage due to them specifically is known.

This fixes [2] for the functional test suite only.

[1] https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-23-10-restricted-unprivileged-user-namespaces
[2] https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/545

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