[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix a compilation problem with LXC drop capabilities

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Fri Jun 12 13:07:01 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 10:24:12AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 
> NB, in the not too distant future I'm going to submit code for making
> the libvirtd daemon drop alot of its capabilities, including clearing
> the bounding set to prevent inheritance by any child processes except
> in required circumstances. For that I'll likely use libcap-ng so we
> will be able to stop callin prctl() directly in the LXC driver.
> 
> [1] libcap-ng isn't technically yet announced to the world, but it'll
>     appear real soon...

FYI, for those who use Linux capabilities, this is now available to the
world and well worth a look if you're battling with old libcap

http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/libcap-ng/index.html

Daniel
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