Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/9] libxl: Get rid of support for QEMU_USER_BASE (xen-qemuuser-domidNN)

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

George Dunlap writes ("[PATCH 3/9] libxl: Get rid of support for QEMU_USER_BASE 
(xen-qemuuser-domidNN)"):
> QEMU_USER_BASE allows a user to specify the UID to use when running
> the devicemodel for a specific domain number.  Unfortunately, this is
> not really practical: It requires nearly 32,000 entries in
> /etc/passwd.  QEMU_USER_RANGE_BASE is much more practical.

Is the presence of this code causing a problem ?  I am happy to
declare it unsupported.

I provided it because the behaviour of choosing a uid which has *no*
passwd entry might reasonably be regarded as anomalous and
undesirable.

I have used systems with O(32k) password file entries for real
users...

Ian.

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