Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] libxl: Avoid fd leak of qemu state fd during migration

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Jackson writes ("[PATCH 2/2] libxl: Avoid fd leak of qemu state fd during 
migration"):
> In a long-running process (such as virt-manager) this might eventually
> run the process out of fds.
> 
> That qemu argument construction might generate an fd that needs to be
> fed to qemu is a bit odd, but we just run with it and provide a
> parameter to the qemu argument construction code for this purpose.
> 
> There is no need to use the carefd machinery, because leaking the odd
> copy of this descriptor into a child unexpectedly forked out of
> another thread, is fine.  We just don't want to leak it back to the
> main process.

It seems I didn't CC this to you, which I should have, sorry.  Will
send the patch in a separate email.

Ian.

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