Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] libvirtd: create run dir when running at non-root user

26 Aug 2011


      On 08/26/2011 03:51 AM, xuhj@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
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From: soulxu<soulxu@soulxu-ThinkPad-T410.(none)>
Signed-off-by: Xu He Jie<xuhj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
When libvirtd is running at non-root user, it won't create ${HOME}/.libvirt.
It will show error message:
17:44:16.838: 7035: error : virPidFileAcquirePath:322 : Failed to open pid file
Thanks for the report and potential patch.
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+    old_umask = umask(022);
+    if (mkdir (run_dir, 0755)) {
However, this part is wrong; use virFileMakePath() from util.h to create 
an arbitrary directory.

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