On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 10:04:23AM -0400, Corey Bryant wrote: > > > On 06/05/2012 02:30 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote: > >On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 09:10:08 -0400 > >Corey Bryant<cor...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > > >>This patch adds QMP support for the getfd command using the QAPI framework. > >>Like the HMP getfd command, it is used to pass a file descriptor via > >>SCM_RIGHTS. However, the QMP getfd command also returns the received file > >>descriptor, which is a difference in behavior from the HMP getfd command, > >>which returns nothing. > > > >I have a few comments regarding the qapi conversion below, but something > >important to discuss is that returning an int the way you're doing it is > >certainly incompatible. > > Thanks for your feedback. > > > > >Today, we return a dict on success: > > > > { "return": {} } > > > >But this patch changes it to: > > > > { "return": 42 } > > > >There are two ways to do this without breaking compatibility: > > > > 1. Add a new command (say get-file-descriptor) > > What do you think about using getfd2 for the command name? I'm > thinking getfd2 may be more obvious that it corresponds to closefd. > That assumes we'll use the same array internally to store fds and > closefd can be used to close the fd opened by > get-file-descriptor/getfd2.
How about calling it 'passfd' instead ? I have always thought the name 'getfd' to be a little wierd really, since we're not getting an FD from QEMU, we're passing it one that we have. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|