[libvirt] [PATCH 6/7] Add SCM_RIGHTS support to QEMU monitor code

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:59:47AM +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:57:35PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > Add qemudMonitorCommandWithFd() which allows a file descriptor to be
> > sent to qemu over a unix monitor socket using SCM_RIGHTS. See the
> > unix(7) and cmsg(3) man pages.
> > 
> > * src/qemu_conf.c: add a scm_fd param to qemudMonitorCommandExtra(),
> >   add qemudMonitorCommandWithFd(), implement SCM_RIGHTS support in
> >   qemudMonitorSendUnix()
> 
>   ACK, that's the logical next step from previous patch, apparently
> SCM_RIGHTS has been around forever, so this should not break on older
> kernel I assume.

It won't break on any kernel we care about in the slightest ;-P I'm
sure other things will break first !


Daniel
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