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Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] docs: show how to spawn qemu-storage-daemon with fd p
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Daniel P . Berrangé |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] docs: show how to spawn qemu-storage-daemon with fd passing |
Date: |
Mon, 1 Mar 2021 18:27:53 +0000 |
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Mutt/2.0.5 (2021-01-21) |
On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 05:27:27PM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> The QMP monitor, NBD server, and vhost-user-blk export all support file
> descriptor passing. This is a useful technique because it allows the
> parent process to spawn and wait for qemu-storage-daemon without busy
> waiting, which may delay startup due to arbitrary sleep() calls.
>
> This Python example is inspired by the test case written for libnbd by
> Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>:
> https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd/-/commit/89113f484effb0e6c322314ba75c1cbe07a04543
>
> Thanks to Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> for suggestions on
> how to get this working. Now let's document it!
>
> Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
> Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> Cc: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> ---
> v2:
> * Use /var/run/qmp.sock instead of /tmp/qmp-$PID.sock to prevent
> security issues with world-writeable directories [Rich, Daniel]
> ---
> docs/tools/qemu-storage-daemon.rst | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Regards,
Daniel
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