From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Cam Macdonell <cam@cs.ualberta.ca>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] Allow recvmsg for qemu char devices
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:28:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A71E669.9070801@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1248971307-8421-1-git-send-email-cam@cs.ualberta.ca>
Cam Macdonell wrote:
> This patch allows switching from the standard recv to recvmsg for a qemu char
> device. Switching allows file descriptors to be passed with SCM_RIGHTS to a
> qemu process. Instead of receiving a buffer of data the recvmsg call back is
> passed a 'struct msghdr'.
>
> The patch also adds a function to add an eventfd as qemu char device. Perhaps
> this should be a separate patch.
>
> This is not an elegant solution to supporting recvmsg so suggestions are
> especially welcome.
>
Use the sendfd/closefd commands that Mark introduced.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
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2009-07-30 16:28 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/2] Allow recvmsg for qemu char devices Cam Macdonell
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