On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:21:55 +0200
John Spencer <maillist-scr...@barfooze.de> wrote:

> From: John Spencer <maillist-scr...@barfooze.de>
> Date: Tue Sep 24 16:50:49 2013 +0200
> 
> Subject: [PATCH] screen: fix breakage when used inside qemu
>     
> when a rootfs is used in qemu with virtio mount,
> new files created get the uid of the qemu user, not the uid of the
> user inside qemu. this is usually no problem since you have full
> access permissions to everything - however, screen did some uid
> comparison checks, which only make sense when the screen sockets
> are stored in a public place such as /var/run or /tmp.
> in our case, they are stored in $HOME, so any screen there belongs
> to us and we do not need to compare uids.

Thanks, applied to screen-v4 branch.

Amadeusz

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