[libvirt] [RFC PATCH 1/4] qemu-options: Add -filefd command line option

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Mon May 21 21:40:17 UTC 2012


On 05/21/2012 02:19 PM, Corey Bryant wrote:
> This patch provides support for the -filefd command line option.
> This option will allow passing of a filename and its corresponding
> file descriptor to QEMU at exec time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Corey Bryant <coreyb at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> +DEF("filefd", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_filefd,
> +    "-filefd file=<filename>,fd=<fd>\n"

I take it that if filename contains ',', then we have to escape it on
the command line?  Is it worth passing fd first and file second by
default, as a possible way to avoid the need for escaping, or does the
option parser not care about ordering?

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Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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