The QMP monitor, NBD server, and vhost-user-blk export all support file
descriptor passing. This is a useful technique because it allows the
parent process to spawn and wait for qemu-storage-daemon without busy
waiting, which may delay startup due to arbitrary sleep() calls.
This Python example is inspired by the test case written for libnbd by
Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>:
89113f484e
Thanks to Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> for suggestions on
how to get this working. Now let's document it!
Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210301172728.135331-2-stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>