Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vhost-user: define conventions for vhost-user backends

2018-09-14 Thread Marc-André Lureau
Hi On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 2:55 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > >> +* --pidfile=PATH >> + >> +Write the process id (PID) to the given file PATH. This is mostly >> +useful if the backend daemonize/fork itself. > > Is there any reason to daemonize itself? > > If not: shoud we disallow it and dro

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vhost-user: define conventions for vhost-user backends

2018-09-14 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > +* --pidfile=PATH > + > +Write the process id (PID) to the given file PATH. This is mostly > +useful if the backend daemonize/fork itself. Is there any reason to daemonize itself? If not: shoud we disallow it and drop the --pidfile switch? If yes: should we add a --daemonize switch then

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vhost-user: define conventions for vhost-user backends

2018-09-13 Thread Marc-André Lureau
As discussed during "[PATCH v4 00/29] vhost-user for input & GPU" review, let's define a common set of backend conventions to help with management layer implementation, and interoperability. Cc: libvir-l...@redhat.com Cc: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: Daniel P. Berrangé Cc: Changpeng Liu Cc: Dr. David Alan