On 10/08/2012 02:37 PM, Marcelo Cerri wrote: > This patch series moves the logic for parsing users and groups in a > similar way to coreutils' chown from security_dac.c to util.c, as > suggested by Eric Blake. > > This change has two majors side effects: > > 1. Some error messages that were issued when security_dac.c tried to > parse an ID as a name are no longer issued. > 2. The keys `user` and `group` in qemu.conf can now be defined in the > same way that in DAC security labels. > > Peter Krempa's fix for correctly handling errors returned by getpwnam_r and > getgrnam_r is squashed into this patch series. > > Marcelo Cerri (2): > util: extend virGetUserID and virGetGroupID to support names and IDs > security: update user and group parsing in security_dac.c > > src/security/security_dac.c | 45 +++----------- > src/util/util.c | 143 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ > 2 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-) ACK series, and pushed. However, I wonder if we should prepare a followup patch to src/qemu/qemu.conf, documenting the new semantics of the 'user' and 'group' config items for accepting numeric ids via leading '+' in the string. -- Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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