[libvirt] [RFC][PATCH] lxc: drop CAP_SYS_BOOT capability to prevent rebooting from inside containers

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Mon May 11 16:41:39 UTC 2009


On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:37:25PM -0400, Dave Allan wrote:
> Matthias Bolte wrote:
> >2009/5/11 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>:
> >>On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:59:45PM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>I needed to apply the following two small changes to get it compile.
> >>>
> >>>On my system (Ubuntu 9.04) I don't have a sys/capability.h header, but
> >>>a linux/capability.h header as part of the linux-libc-dev package.
> >>That is because sys/capability.h is provided by libcap, not libc.
> >>I guess you don't have libcap-dev installed.
> >>
> >>$ rpm -qf /usr/include/sys/capability.h
> >>libcap-devel-2.06-4.fc9.i386
> >>
> >
> >You guess was correct. With libcap-dev installed it compiles without 
> >problems.
> 
> We should check for the presence of libcap-dev in the configure script.

And also add a  BuildRequires to the RPM specfile

Daniel
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