[Bug 332323] Re: vmware-user-suid-wrapper does not properly activate vmblock

[William Cattey]

Attached is a patch that adds in the necessary code for vmware-user-suid-wrapper
to properly modprobe to remove and add the vmblock module.
I tried very hard to follow the style conventions of the existing code.

One thing that's a bit kludgy:  The platform independent code thinks it should create
the vmblock directory in /proc/fs.  Under linux, that's done in the vmblock kernel module
initialization.  I chose to add a platform specific "if !defined(linux)" to the platform
independent code in main.  Others may want a different style.

**IMPORTANT** NONE of this will work unless one more packaging mistake
is corrected:

vmware-user-suid-wrapper is currently not installed suid root.
To do its work properly it must be installed suid root.


** Attachment added: "Patch to add vmblock load code to vmware-user-suid-wrapper"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23087446/wdc-patch.diff

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