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authorAlex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>2020-09-25 13:51:29 +0100
committerDr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>2020-10-12 12:39:38 +0100
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tools/virtiofsd: add support for --socket-group
If you like running QEMU as a normal user (very common for TCG runs) but you have to run virtiofsd as a root user you run into connection problems. Adding support for an optional --socket-group allows the users to keep using the command line. Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200925125147.26943-2-alex.bennee@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> dgilbert: Split long line
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@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ Options
Listen on vhost-user UNIX domain socket at PATH.
+.. option:: --socket-group=GROUP
+
+ Set the vhost-user UNIX domain socket gid to GROUP.
+
.. option:: --fd=FDNUM
Accept connections from vhost-user UNIX domain socket file descriptor FDNUM.