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Expand Up @@ -19,6 +19,26 @@ so not all Testcontainers features might be available.
If you have further questions about configuration details for your setup or whether it supports running Testcontainers-based tests,
please contact the Testcontainers team and other users from the Testcontainers community on [Slack](https://slack.testcontainers.org/).

## Temporary directory and JNA

Testcontainers uses [JNA](https://github.com/java-native-access/jna) (directly, and via [docker-java](https://github.com/docker-java/docker-java)) to talk to the container runtime.
By default JNA extracts a small native library under `/tmp` (typically `/tmp/jna`) and loads it from there.

If `/tmp` is mounted with the `noexec` flag, that load fails with an error similar to:

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add language identifiers to both fenced blocks.

markdownlint reports MD040 for the stack trace and JVM argument examples. Mark both blocks as text so the documentation passes Markdown lint.

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[warning] 29-29: Fenced code blocks should have a language specified

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java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /tmp/jna-.../jna....tmp: failed to map segment from shared object: Operation not permitted
```

Point JNA at a directory that allows execution with the JVM system properties `jna.tmpdir` and `java.io.tmpdir`.
Pass them as JVM arguments to the process that runs Testcontainers (for example Surefire/Failsafe `argLine`, or Gradle `systemProperty`). `JAVA_OPTS` is not always applied.

```
-Djna.tmpdir=/path/to/exec-tmp -Djava.io.tmpdir=/path/to/exec-tmp
```

Create that directory first if it does not already exist.

## Colima

In order to run testcontainers against [colima](https://github.com/abiosoft/colima) the env vars below should be set
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