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Re: [Qemu-devel] correct path for qemu-*-helper
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] correct path for qemu-*-helper |
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Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:27:06 +0200 |
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On 27/03/2018 18:15, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
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> <th_huth> is there are reason that qemu-bridge-helper is installed into
> $libexecdir but qemu-pr-helper is rather installed into $bindir instead?
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> I'm not familiar with these utilities, but my understanding is $bindir
> is for user executable binaries.
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> These helpers aren't expected to be started directly by user but by
> daemon/systemd, so both would belong to $libexecdir.
qemu-bridge-helper is started by QEMU itself, the user doesn't know
about it. So it goes in $libexecdir.
qemu-pr-helper is started by systemd, so it goes in either $bindir or
$sbindir. The distinction between $bindir and $sbindir has never been
clear, though.
Paolo