When the flag COPY_ALL_XATTRS is set, it causes the complete set of xattrs
to be copied. If the flag is unset, only xattrs from the "user" namespace
are copied.
Fixes#17178.
When copying large directory trees it should be a better idea to sync
the whole fs once when we are done instead of individually for each
file, hence add COPY_SYNCFS.
As opposed to COPY_FSYNC/COPY_FSYNC_FULL this only really applies to the
top-level directory, after completion of the whole copy.
As a safety precaution it makes sense to fsync() files after copying
them, and maybe even the directories they are contained in. Let's add a
flag for these two cases.
The goal is to move everything that requires selinux or smack
away from src/basic/. This means that src/basic/label.[ch] must move,
which implies btrfs-util.[ch], copy.[ch], and a bunch of other files
which form a cluster of internal use.
This is just moving text around, so there should be no functional difference.
test-blockdev-util is new, because path_is_encrypted() is moved to
blockdev-util.c, and so far we didn't have any tests for code there.
Previously it would recursively copy the entire tree in, and descend
into subdirectories even if the destination already exists. Let's do
what the documentation says and not do that.
If files down the tree shall be copied too, they should get their own
"C" lines.
systemd-sysusers is a tool to reconstruct /etc/passwd and /etc/group
from static definition files that take a lot of inspiration from
tmpfiles snippets. These snippets should carry information about system
users only. To make sure it is not misused for normal users these
snippets only allow configuring UID and gecos field for each user, but
do not allow configuration of the home directory or shell, which is
necessary for real login users.
The purpose of this tool is to enable state-less systems that can
populate /etc with the minimal files necessary, solely from static data
in /usr. systemd-sysuser is additive only, and will never override
existing users.
This tool will create these files directly, and not via some user
database abtsraction layer. This is appropriate as this tool is supposed
to run really early at boot, and is only useful for creating system
users, and system users cannot be stored in remote databases anyway.
The tool is also useful to be invoked from RPM scriptlets, instead of
useradd. This allows moving from imperative user descriptions in RPM to
declarative descriptions.
The UID/GID for a user/group to be created can either be chosen dynamic,
or fixed, or be read from the owner of a file in the file system, in
order to support reconstructing the correct IDs for files that shall be
owned by them.
This also adds a minimal user definition file, that should be
sufficient for most basic systems. Distributions are expected to patch
these files and augment the contents, for example with fixed UIDs for
the users where that's necessary.
Andrej Lajovic
Lennart Poettering
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Kay Sievers
Ronny Chevalier