Subject: [bug#43650] [PATCH 1/8] services: hurd-vm: Run QEMU as an unprivileged user.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:23:19 +0200

Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Shot in the dark, do the permissions/ownership on /var/empty matter?
> childhurd is far from the only user claiming /var/empty as home.

I don’t think so.  There’s code somewhere that ensures that /var/empty
is root-owned and read-only.

Ludo’.