Hi Folks,
I am trying to find a way to use sublime in two different chroot’ed environments in linux. Though both sublime instances are launched with their own projects (visible in their respective chroot directories) from the command line, the second sublime always sees the file system of the first sublime instance.
Is there anyway to make this work?
I’ve tried to do a similar thing, although in my case instead of a chroot environment I just have two copies of Sublime 3 installed, a “main” and a “sandbox” version, so that I can try out plugins or diagnose problems in a clean environment easier.
When you try to run a second instance of sublime (even if it’s a distinctly different executable with its own self contained Data directory), it appears to communicate with the existing running copy and tells that one what to do.
tmartin:dart:~> ipcs -mp | grep `pgrep sublime`
1686470673 tmartin 12294 2000
1761607700 tmartin 12294 2000
Based on this, I’m guessing that it’s using a shared memory segment to detect an already running instance, although I never really investigated that too deeply and it could be using that for something completely different.
The only way around this that I know of (besides using Sublime 2 and 3 at the same time, which is less than desirable) is to run the second copy as a different user.