Re: [Xen-devel] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/8] os-posix: Provide new -runasid option

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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