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When virFileOpenAs is called with VIR_FILE_OPEN_AS_UID flag and uid/gid different from root/root while libvirtd is running as root, we fork a new child, change its effective UID/GID to uid/gid and run virFileOpenAsNoFork. It doesn't make any sense to fchown() the opened file in this case since we already know that uid/gid can access the file when open succeeds and one of the following situations may happen: - the file is already owned by uid/gid and we skip fchown even before this patch - the file is owned by uid but not gid because it was created in a directory with SETGID set, in which case it is desirable not to change the group - the file may be owned by a completely different user and/or group because it was created on a root-squashed or even all-squashed NFS filesystem, in which case fchown would most likely fail anyway
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>