Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vhost-user: define conventions for vhost-user backends

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 2:55 PM, Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:
>   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.

Let's drop the daemonize/pidfile part from the initial spec. We can
later add it back if we have a good rationale.

thanks