[PATCH v2] virprocess: Drop workaround for setns() wrt old glibc

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Tue May 24 12:22:00 UTC 2022


On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 02:21:01PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> We have our own implementation of setns() which was introduced in
> v1.2.9-rc1~190 and extended afterwards. The reason was that back
> in 2014 we were dealing with glibc that in some of its older
> versions did not provide the function. Mostly for non-intel
> arches. Nevertheless, glibc now offers the function for all
> architectures we care about (aarch64 being the freshest
> architecture where the function was introduced, in glibc-2.17).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
> ---
> v2 of:
> 
> https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2022-May/231773.html
> 
> diff to v1:
> - drop setns() detection in meson
> - make virProcessSetNamespaces() impl depend on __linux__
> 
>  meson.build           |  1 -
>  src/util/virprocess.c | 55 +++++++++----------------------------------
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>


With regards,
Daniel
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