Re: [libvirt] Fwd: libvirtd failing on MacOS in setgroups

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 01:36:15PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Marcus Furlong wrote:
> > FWIW I compiled libvirt without the setgroups code on Mac and it
> > worked as expected. Not sure what the implications of that are though?
> 
> OK, then the fix would be to not use setgroups on Mac, and nothing to do
> in gnulib. Right?

Not calling setgroups means the QEMU process doesn't run with any of
the supplementary groups associated with its user account, so this is
not really a working solution. It re-introduces the bug that the
setgroups call was added to fix.

Regards,
Daniel
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