Only because porting the proxy-helper to macOS is outside the scope of this particular patch. While some initial concepts around it have been considered by some of the contributors to this patch, those implementations weren't tested enough and the security implications weren't considered in full. We assume that this could be an additional implementation later on, if the functionality is considered important down the road.
On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 4:22 PM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/2/22 21:07, Will Cohen wrote: > > From: Keno Fischer <[email protected]> > > > > Signed-off-by: Keno Fischer <[email protected]> > > [Michael Roitzsch: - Rebase for NixOS] > > Signed-off-by: Michael Roitzsch <[email protected]> > > [Will Cohen: - Rebase to master] > > Signed-off-by: Will Cohen <[email protected]> > > Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> > > [Will Cohen: - Add check for pthread_fchdir_np to virtfs] > > Signed-off-by: Will Cohen <[email protected]> > > --- > > fsdev/meson.build | 1 + > > meson.build | 14 ++++++++++---- > > 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > > -have_virtfs_proxy_helper = have_virtfs and have_tools > > +have_virtfs_proxy_helper = targetos == 'linux' and have_virtfs and > have_tools > > Why do you restrict the proxy-helper to Linux? >
