Markus Armbruster writes ("Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/8] os-posix: Provide new -runasid option"): > Actually, a numeric UID without group name or ID could be made to work > just fine as long as it maps to a user name. The use case may not be > worth the bother, though.
In libxl's use case, it wouldn't map to a name. > Using '.' to separate user and group is suboptimal, because POSIX > portable user and group names may contain it: ... > Coreutils uses ':'. Let's follow its lead. I'm happy to change it to use `:'. Can you confirm that this command line interface is then OK ? We would like to stablise the corresponding code in libxl... Ian.