[libvirt] [PATCH] Solaris least privilege support

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Mon Jan 19 15:32:44 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:59:59PM +0000, John Levon wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 08:35:16AM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
> >   The comment and the code don't seems to match, and it seems to me
> 
> Oops, will fix the comment.
> 
> > that this code would fail except in the first time the daemon is
> > launched because mkdir /var/run/libvirt will return -1 and errno EEXIST
> > in all following cases. I'm worried about this,
> 
> What do you mean? /var/run is a tmpfs on Solaris so must mkdir after
> every reboot.

  I don't see any #ifdef __sun around that part of the patch, so
I assume it need to be valid for all OSes. Moreover if you kill and
restart the daemon, I would assume that chunk to fail too. So this need
to be fixed IMHO before commit.

Daniel

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