[libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] virt-login-shell joins users into lxc container.

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 01:15:51PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 07/31/2013 12:57 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 
> >> +    if (virFork(&cpid) < 0)
> >> +	goto cleanup;
> >> +
> ...
> >> +	}
> >> +
> >> +	if ((ngroups = virGetGroupList(uid, gid, &groups)) < 0)
> >> +	    return EXIT_FAILURE;
> > 
> > virGetGroupList isn't safe to call after fork(). Need to
> > move it earlier in this function.
> 
> Technically, it is only unsafe to call after fork() if the parent
> process was multi-threaded.  But as virt-login-shell is single-threaded,
> we can get away with it here.

I work on the assumption that all programs are multi-threaded, or will
be at some point in their future, even if the developer doesn't think
they are/willbe. You never know when some function/library you call
may secretly create a thread behind your back. For example, virsh was
single threaded, until we put in the special background thread to run
the event loop in.

Regards,
Daniel
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