Rather than treating uid:gid of 0:0 as a NOP, we blindly pass that
through to the lower layers. However, we *do* check for a requested
value of "-1" to mean "don't change this setting". setregid() and
setreuid() already interpret -1 as a NOP, so this is just an
optimization, but we are also calling getpwuid_r and initgroups, and
it's unclear what the former would do with a uid of -1.
Currently, whenever somebody calls saferead() on nonblocking FD
(safewrite() is totally interchangeable for purpose of this message)
he might get wrong return value. For instance, in the first iteration
some data is read. The number of bytes read is stored into local
variable 'nread'. However, in next iterations we can get -1 from
read() with errno == EAGAIN, in which case the -1 is returned despite
fact some data has already been read. So the caller gets confused.
Bare read() should be used for nonblocking FD.
There's no need to do lots of readlink() calls to canonicalize
a name if we're only going to use stat() on it, since stat()
already chases symlinks.
* src/util/virutil.c (virGetDeviceID): Let stat() do the symlink
chasing.
"virGetDeviceID" could be used across the sources, but it doesn't
relate with this series, and could be done later.
* src/util/virutil.h: (Declare virGetDeviceID, and
vir{Get,Set}DeviceUnprivSGIO)
* src/util/virutil.c: (Implement virGetDeviceID and
vir{Get,Set}DeviceUnprivSGIO)
* src/libvirt_private.syms: Export private symbols of upper helpers
