[libvirt] [PATCH] vhost-user: define conventions for vhost-user backends

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Fri Sep 14 10:55:30 UTC 2018


  Hi,

> +* --pidfile=PATH
> +
> +Write the process id (PID) to the given file PATH. This is mostly
> +useful if the backend daemonize/fork itself.

Is there any reason to daemonize itself?

If not: shoud we disallow it and drop the --pidfile switch?

If yes: should we add a --daemonize switch then to control whenever the
process daemonizes itself?

Otherwise the conventions look good to me.

cheers,
  Gerd




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