[libvirt] [PATCH] Support the usage of socat instead of netcat

[Daniel Veillard]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 12:39:34PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 12:58:33PM +0200, Jonas Eriksson wrote:
> > * src/remote_internal.c: Honour USE_SOCAT by selecting between
> >   netcat/nc and socat at compile time.
> 
> Changing the binary used at compile time is really not a good idea,
> because libvirt uses netcat on the remote machine, which is not
> required to be the same distro as the client machine on whihc you
> built libvirt. So by making socat vs netcat a compile time option
> you pretty much guarentee incompatibility between libvirt client & 
> server betweeen distros. It is really better to fix netcat on the
> distros where -U isn't available.

  As for other case where we had multiple binary options, isn't
picking up at runtime a possibility, suppose we can catch that
'netcat -U' fails, we could try to fallback to socat.
  In any case a compile time switch doesn't sounds right to me but
being more flexible at runtime is similar to the way we have done
for dependance on other binaries.

Daniel

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