[Virtio-fs] [PATCH 0/2] Convert to cap-ng

[Vivek Goyal]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 01:14:21PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote:
> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert at redhat.com>
> 
> Hi,
>   This changes virtiofsd to use cap-ng rather than cap
> (qemu is moving in that direction).  It's a little painful
> because of an interaction with our sandboxing.
> 
> I intend to flatten the conversion into Vivek's patch that
> adds the libcap use.

It feels ugly that we store the parent process's state in a global
variable and all the threads load their state from there. At the
same time I don't have any good idea how to solve this problem given
libcap-ng relies on /proc being there. So I am fine with the patches.

Thanks
Vivek
> 
> Dave
> 
> Dr. David Alan Gilbert (2):
>   virtiofsd: cap-ng helpers
>   virtiofsd: Convert to libcap-ng
> 
>  Makefile                           |   2 +-
>  contrib/virtiofsd/Makefile.objs    |   2 -
>  contrib/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c | 162 +++++++++++++++++++----------
>  3 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)
> 
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> 2.23.0
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