Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 7/9] sockets: allow SocketAddress 'fd' to reference numeric file descriptors

[Eric Blake]

On 02/06/2018 03:13 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:

> > > +++ b/qapi/sockets.json
> > > @@ -123,6 +123,13 @@
> > >    #
> > >    # @unix:  Unix domain socket
> > >    #
> > > +# @vsock: VMCI address
> > > +#
> > > +# @fd: decimal is for file descriptor number, otherwise a file descriptor name.
> > > +#      Named file descriptors are permitted in monitor commands, in combination
> > > +#      with the 'getfd' command. Decimal file descriptors are permitted at
> > > +#      startup or other contexts where no monitor context is active.
> > > +#
> > >    # Since: 2.9
> >
> > There doesn't seem to be any way to introspect if we support decimal fds
> > from the command line; is that going to be a problem?
>
> Libvirt needs to know when it can use it, so any suggestions ?

Patch 9/9 modified qemu_chardev_opts; does that change reflect through 
query-command-line-options?  Not all QemuOpts changes are introspectible 
yet, and Markus has been trying to tackle that, but if this particular 
one works, we can use that as our witness (after all, if I understand 
correctly, the new feature you are adding here is NOT affecting the QMP 
usage, but is an enhancement for command-line usage).

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