[libvirt] [PATCH 0/4] Take 3 - Patchset to avoid uid problems in volume creation

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 02:29:39AM -0500, Laine Stump wrote:
> The last iteration of this work (which is now completely obsoleted) is
> at https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-January/msg00302.html
> 
> These patches are intended in particular to deal with problems
> creating storage volumes on pools that are located on root-squashing
> NFS servers, but hopefully they are overall just "a good thing" and
> will solve other as-yet-unencountered/unreported problems.
> 
> Differences from previous version of the patches:
> 
> 1) For completeness, chmod is done inside virFileCreate and
>    virDirCreate as well as setting uid and gid.
> 
> 2) Both of those functions now take an additional flag -
>    VIR_FILE_CREATE_ALLOW_EXIST, which does exactly what you'd think.
> 
> 3) I now always attempt to set uid/gid correctly, even if not running
>    as root (per Serge Hallyn's suggestions during the last go around)
> 
> 4) I've added a patch that uses similar logic to get the uid/gid/mode
>    of the directories for newly created pools correct as well.
>    (Previously, we'd been ignoring the permission bits of pool
>    definition xml).

  Okay I commited the set with the updated patches 2 and 4,

   thanks !

Daniel

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