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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/8] os-posix: Provide new -runasid option
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Ian Jackson |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/8] os-posix: Provide new -runasid option |
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Tue, 10 Oct 2017 18:11:18 +0100 |
Markus Armbruster writes ("Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/8] os-posix: Provide new
-runasid option"):
> Actually, a numeric UID without group name or ID could be made to work
> just fine as long as it maps to a user name. The use case may not be
> worth the bother, though.
In libxl's use case, it wouldn't map to a name.
> Using '.' to separate user and group is suboptimal, because POSIX
> portable user and group names may contain it:
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> Coreutils uses ':'. Let's follow its lead.
I'm happy to change it to use `:'.
Can you confirm that this command line interface is then OK ?
We would like to stablise the corresponding code in libxl...
Ian.
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/8] os-posix: Provide new -runasid option, (continued)
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/8] xen: defer call to xen_restrict until after os_setup_post, Ian Jackson, 2017/10/04
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/8] xen: move xc_interface compatibility fallback further up the file, Ian Jackson, 2017/10/04
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/8] xen: restrict: use xentoolcore_restrict_all, Ian Jackson, 2017/10/04
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/8] xen: destroy_hvm_domain: Move reason into a variable, Ian Jackson, 2017/10/04
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/8] RFC configure: do_compiler: Dump some extra info under bash, Ian Jackson, 2017/10/04
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/8] xen: destroy_hvm_domain: Try xendevicemodel_shutdown, Ian Jackson, 2017/10/04