[libvirt] [PATCH v2 0/2] extend virGetUserID and virGetGroupID

[Eric Blake]

On 10/08/2012 02:37 PM, Marcelo Cerri wrote:
> This patch series moves the logic for parsing users and groups in a
> similar way to coreutils' chown from security_dac.c to util.c, as
> suggested by Eric Blake.
> 
> This change has two majors side effects:
> 
>  1. Some error messages that were issued when security_dac.c tried to
>     parse an ID as a name are no longer issued.
>  2. The keys `user` and `group` in qemu.conf can now be defined in the
>     same way that in DAC security labels.
> 
> Peter Krempa's fix for correctly handling errors returned by getpwnam_r and
> getgrnam_r is squashed into this patch series.
> 
> Marcelo Cerri (2):
>   util: extend virGetUserID and virGetGroupID to support names and IDs
>   security: update user and group parsing in security_dac.c
> 
>  src/security/security_dac.c |  45 +++-----------
>  src/util/util.c             | 143 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  2 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-)

ACK series, and pushed.  However, I wonder if we should prepare a
followup patch to src/qemu/qemu.conf, documenting the new semantics of
the 'user' and 'group' config items for accepting numeric ids via
leading '+' in the string.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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