Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] Add getfd and closefd monitor commands

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 07/08/2009 05:57 PM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Add monitor commands to support passing file descriptors via
> SCM_RIGHTS.
>
> getfd assigns the passed file descriptor a name for use with other
> monitor commands.
>
> closefd allows passed file descriptors to be closed. If a monitor
> command actually uses a named file descriptor, closefd will not be
> required.
>
>
>    

> @@ -70,6 +70,14 @@ typedef struct mon_cmd_t {
>       const char *help;
>   } mon_cmd_t;
>
> +/* file descriptors passed via SCM_RIGHTS */
> +typedef struct mon_fd_t mon_fd_t;
> +struct mon_fd_t {
> +    char *name;
> +    int fd;
> +    LIST_ENTRY(mon_fd_t) next;
> +};
> +
>    

The _t namespace is reserved by posix and not used for structures in 
qemu anyway.  I see there's precedent a few lines above but let's not 
introduce new violations.

> +
> +    fd = dup(fd);
>    

Why?

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