Re: [Qemu-devel] Setting new user:group with -daemonize?

[David Barrett <dbarrett@quinthar.com>]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> David Barrett wrote:
>>
>> I'd update the -daemonize syntax as follows:
>>
>>     -daemonize [user[:group]]
>>
>> Is there any interest in such a patch?
> 
> If you introduced two new options to specify the user and the group.  

Ok, so you're saying you prefer two new options:

-user <user>
-group <group>

> Also, I would be interested in a chroot option too :-)

Adding the following also seems easy enough:

-chroot <path>

If I build it, any estimate of how long it'd take to make it into the 
next mainline release?

>> PS: Why does it fork twice?
> 
> It makes sure QEMU is an orphan process (it's parent is pid 1).  It's a 
> pretty typical thing to do when daemonizing.

Ah, very clever.

-david