According to vhost-user.rst "Backend program conventions", backend programs should run in the foregound by default. Follow the conventions so libvirt and other management tools can control virtiofsd in a standard way.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> --- contrib/virtiofsd/helper.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/contrib/virtiofsd/helper.c b/contrib/virtiofsd/helper.c index 4c71452080..8d8bca889b 100644 --- a/contrib/virtiofsd/helper.c +++ b/contrib/virtiofsd/helper.c @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ static const struct fuse_opt fuse_helper_opts[] = { FUSE_OPT_KEY("-d", FUSE_OPT_KEY_KEEP), FUSE_OPT_KEY("debug", FUSE_OPT_KEY_KEEP), FUSE_HELPER_OPT("-f", foreground), + FUSE_HELPER_OPT_VALUE("--daemonize", foreground, 0), FUSE_HELPER_OPT("-s", singlethread), FUSE_HELPER_OPT("fsname=", nodefault_subtype), FUSE_OPT_KEY("fsname=", FUSE_OPT_KEY_KEEP), @@ -139,6 +140,7 @@ void fuse_cmdline_help(void) " -d -o debug enable debug output (implies -f)\n" " --syslog log to syslog (default stderr)\n" " -f foreground operation\n" + " --daemonize run in background\n" " -s disable multi-threaded operation\n" " -o clone_fd use separate fuse device fd for each thread\n" " (may improve performance)\n" @@ -171,6 +173,7 @@ int fuse_parse_cmdline(struct fuse_args *args, memset(opts, 0, sizeof(struct fuse_cmdline_opts)); opts->max_idle_threads = 10; + opts->foreground = 1; if (fuse_opt_parse(args, opts, fuse_helper_opts, fuse_helper_opt_proc) == -1) -- 2.21.0