[libvirt PATCH 2/8] Revert "remote: move timeout arg into sysconf file"

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Thu Apr 2 15:34:03 UTC 2020


On Thu, 2020-04-02 at 13:38 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 02:16:46PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > On Thu, 2020-04-02 at 13:00 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > The effect on this though is that --timeout arg now has to be
> > > specified twice so we'll get a running process of
> > > 
> > >    "libvirtd --timeout 120 --timeout 0"
> > > 
> > > which I find quite unappealing, so I'm not really in favour of
> > > this revert, especially as we don't actually use the sysconf
> > > files from other init systems
> > 
> > I don't think it's a big deal, especially considering that most
> > people will not end up actually changing the default, but I'm okay
> > with flipping this around and moving --timeout from the service
> > file to the ARGS variable in the corresponding sysconf file for all
> > daemons instead, especially since Jano pointed out that a lot of
> > sysconf files already look like that on a Fedora installation.
> > 
> > Would that work for you?
> 
> IIUC, what you describe is what the current setup already does,
> so you mean just dropping this patch ?

That's currently only true of libvirtd: for all other daemons, the
use of --timeout is embedded in the service file, and there is no
sysconf file at all. I'm suggesting we achieve consistency by
adopting the same approach for all other daemons as well.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization




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