[libvirt] [PATCH] Solaris least privilege support

[Daniel Veillard]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:05:03PM +0000, John Levon wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 04:32:44PM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
> > > > 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.
> 
> I don't think you've read the code correctly. A mkdir of an existing
> directory will not fail.

  Oops I was blind ! Weird ...

Daniel

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