[PATCH 0/8] Open socket and PID files as root, before switching

[Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>]

If libguestfs tools run as root, with the 'direct' backend (without
libvirt), we'll start as root as well.

As guest images might be owned by root, there are valid reasons to use
libguestfs tools as root, so be nice to them: open socket and PID
files *before* switching to nobody, so that we can still access their
paths.

Stefano Brivio (8):
  conf: Don't lecture user about starting us as root
  tap: Move all-ones initialisation of mac_guest to tap_sock_init()
  passt, tap: Don't use -1 as uninitialised value for fd_tap_listen
  tap: Split tap_sock_unix_init() into opening and listening parts
  util: Rename write_pidfile() to pidfile_write()
  passt, util: Move opening of PID file to its own function
  conf, passt, tap: Open socket and PID files before switching UID/GID
  conf, passt.h: Rename pid_file in struct ctx to pidfile

 conf.c  | 23 +++++++++++++++++++----
 passt.c | 17 ++++-------------
 passt.h |  8 ++++++--
 tap.c   | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 tap.h   |  1 +
 util.c  | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 util.h  |  3 ++-
 7 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)

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