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From: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>,
	Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, xen-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/8] os-posix: Provide new -runasid option
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 05:52:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38c21aac73a74322baf1d275b3166e53@FTLPEX02CAS02.citrite.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tgjla6b.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org>

Markus Armbruster writes ("Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/8] os-posix: Provide new -runasid option"):
> Actually, a numeric UID without group name or ID could be made to work
> just fine as long as it maps to a user name.  The use case may not be
> worth the bother, though.

In libxl's use case, it wouldn't map to a name.

> Using '.' to separate user and group is suboptimal, because POSIX
> portable user and group names may contain it:
...
> Coreutils uses ':'.  Let's follow its lead.

I'm happy to change it to use `:'.

Can you confirm that this command line interface is then OK ?
We would like to stablise the corresponding code in libxl...

Ian.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-11  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-04 16:18 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/*] xen: xen-domid-restrict improvements Ian Jackson
2017-10-04 16:18 ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-04 16:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/8] xen: link against xentoolcore Ian Jackson
2017-10-04 16:18   ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-04 16:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/8] xen: restrict: use xentoolcore_restrict_all Ian Jackson
2017-10-04 16:18   ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-04 16:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/8] xen: defer call to xen_restrict until after os_setup_post Ian Jackson
2017-10-04 16:18   ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-09 15:50   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony PERARD
2017-10-09 15:50     ` Anthony PERARD
2017-10-09 16:58     ` [Qemu-devel] " Ian Jackson
2017-10-09 16:58       ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-10 11:40       ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony PERARD
2017-10-10 11:40         ` Anthony PERARD
2017-10-10 17:16         ` [Qemu-devel] " Ian Jackson
2017-10-10 17:16           ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-09 17:00     ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-04 16:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/8] xen: destroy_hvm_domain: Move reason into a variable Ian Jackson
2017-10-04 16:18   ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-04 16:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/8] xen: move xc_interface compatibility fallback further up the file Ian Jackson
2017-10-04 16:18   ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-04 16:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/8] xen: destroy_hvm_domain: Try xendevicemodel_shutdown Ian Jackson
2017-10-04 16:18   ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-04 16:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/8] os-posix: Provide new -runasid option Ian Jackson
2017-10-04 16:18   ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-06 12:47   ` [Qemu-devel] " Ross Lagerwall
2017-10-06 12:47     ` Ross Lagerwall
2017-10-06 14:24     ` [Qemu-devel] " Ian Jackson
2017-10-06 14:24       ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-06 14:39     ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-06 12:59   ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Maydell
2017-10-06 12:59     ` Peter Maydell
2017-10-06 14:24     ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-06 14:24       ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-06 14:39     ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-09  5:46   ` Markus Armbruster
2017-10-09  5:46     ` Markus Armbruster
2017-10-09 15:05     ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-09 15:05       ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-09 15:24       ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-10-09 15:24         ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-10-09 16:52         ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-09 16:52           ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-09 16:59         ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-10  7:43       ` Markus Armbruster
2017-10-10  7:43         ` Markus Armbruster
2017-10-10 17:11         ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-10 17:11           ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-11  9:52         ` Ian Jackson [this message]
2017-10-09 15:14     ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-04 16:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/8] RFC configure: do_compiler: Dump some extra info under bash Ian Jackson
2017-10-04 16:18   ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-06 12:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/*] xen: xen-domid-restrict improvements Ross Lagerwall
2017-10-06 12:58   ` Ross Lagerwall
2017-10-06 13:19   ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Paul Durrant
2017-10-06 13:19     ` Paul Durrant
2017-10-10 13:40     ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Ross Lagerwall
2017-10-10 13:40       ` Ross Lagerwall
2017-10-10 17:21       ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Ian Jackson
2017-10-10 17:21         ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-06 14:17   ` [Qemu-devel] " Ian Jackson
2017-10-06 14:17     ` Ian Jackson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-10-06 18:27 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/8] " Ian Jackson
2017-10-06 18:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/8] os-posix: Provide new -runasid option Ian Jackson
2017-11-06 12:29   ` Markus Armbruster
2017-11-06 12:29     ` Markus Armbruster
2017-11-06 15:16     ` Ian Jackson
2017-11-06 15:16       ` Ian Jackson
2017-11-06 18:40       ` Markus Armbruster
2017-11-06 18:40         ` Markus Armbruster
2017-11-08 11:15         ` Ian Jackson
2017-11-08 11:15           ` Ian Jackson
2017-10-04 15:53 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/7] xen: xen-domid-restrict improvements Ian Jackson
2017-10-04 15:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/8] os-posix: Provide new -runasid option Ian Jackson

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