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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] qemu-nbd: Implement socket activation.
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] qemu-nbd: Implement socket activation. |
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Fri, 3 Feb 2017 23:44:23 -0800 |
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On 03/02/2017 11:22, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
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> I think that the --fork option is mainly intended for command line use
> of qemu-nbd. If you're running qemu-nbd from a program there's no
> real reason to use --fork, since you can control the fork process
> better yourself.
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> LISTEN_PID isn't settable from the command line. It's also not
> settable from a shell script (as far as I can tell when I was trying
> to write a shell script to test nbdkit). It has to be set between the
> fork and exec calls, because it is set to the qemu-nbd PID.
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> So I don't think --fork and socket activation are really features that
> it makes any sense to mix.
I agree it doesn't really make sense, but I also don't see why it
wouldn't work.
Paolo