Re: [PATCH 0/5] Enable unix socket support on Windows

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 06:15:50PM +0800, Bin Meng wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 5:06 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 03:35:37PM +0800, Bin Meng wrote:
> > > Support for the unix socket has existed both in BSD and Linux for the
> > > longest time, but not on Windows. Since Windows 10 build 17063 [1],
> > > the native support for the unix socket has came to Windows. Starting
> > > this build, two Win32 processes can use the AF_UNIX address family
> > > over Winsock API to communicate with each other.
> > >
> > > Introduce a new build time config option CONFIG_AF_UNIX when the build
> > > host has such a capability, and a run-time check afunix_available() for
> > > Windows host in the QEMU sockets util codes.
> > >
> > > [1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/af_unix-comes-to-windows/
> > >
> > >
> > > Bin Meng (5):
> > >   util/qemu-sockets: Replace the call to close a socket with
> > >     closesocket()
> > >   util/oslib-win32: Add a helper to get the Windows version
> > >   qga/commands-win32: Use os_get_win_version()
> > >   util/qemu-sockets: Enable unix socket support on Windows
> > >   chardev/char-socket: Update AF_UNIX for Windows
> > >
> > >  meson.build               |  6 +++++
> > >  include/sysemu/os-win32.h |  2 ++
> > >  chardev/char-socket.c     |  8 +++++-
> > >  qga/commands-win32.c      | 27 +-------------------
> > >  util/oslib-win32.c        | 15 +++++++++++
> > >  util/qemu-sockets.c       | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> > >  6 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> >
> > What about net/socket.c ?
> 
> It looks net/socket.c does not need to adapt.
> 
> > Also there are many tests using AF_UNIX and this doesn't appear to
> > have enablede any of them.  I'd at least exepct to see  the sockets
> > tests-io-channel-socket.c test enabled to prove this functionality
> > is working.
> >
> 
> Enabling qtest to run on Windows is underway but that's a separate
> topic. The qtest itself is using unix socket so as long as we can run
> qtest on Windows, we should be fine.
> I feel this series is independent enough of being a standalone one.

That isn't qtest, that is basic unit tests. I would expect those to
be able to work with this series 


With regards,
Daniel
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