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diff --git a/gnu/build/linux-container.scm b/gnu/build/linux-container.scm
index 72e3a45422..dee6885400 100644
--- a/gnu/build/linux-container.scm
+++ b/gnu/build/linux-container.scm
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2015 David Thompson <davet@gnu.org>
-;;; Copyright © 2017-2019, 2022 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2017-2019, 2022, 2023 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ load path must be adjusted as needed."
(define (container-excursion pid thunk)
"Run THUNK as a child process within the namespaces of process PID and
-return the exit status."
+return the exit status, an integer as returned by 'waitpid'."
(define (namespace-file pid namespace)
(string-append "/proc/" (number->string pid) "/ns/" namespace))
@@ -432,11 +432,20 @@ return the exit status."
'("user" "ipc" "uts" "net" "pid" "mnt"))
(purify-environment)
(chdir "/")
- (thunk))))
+
+ ;; Per setns(2), changing the PID namespace only applies to child
+ ;; processes, not to the process itself. Thus fork so that THUNK runs
+ ;; in the right PID namespace, which also gives it access to /proc.
+ (match (primitive-fork)
+ (0 (call-with-clean-exit thunk))
+ (pid (primitive-exit
+ (match (waitpid pid)
+ ((_ . status)
+ (or (status:exit-val status) 127)))))))))
(pid
(match (waitpid pid)
((_ . status)
- (status:exit-val status))))))
+ status)))))
(define (container-excursion* pid thunk)
"Like 'container-excursion', but return the return value of THUNK."