Re: passfd on more platforms

[Eric Blake]

On 03/14/2011 11:37 AM, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 17:10, Bastien ROUCARIES
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> On 03/14/2011 05:03 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Not sure BTW it will be really simple:
>>>>> - send as oob data if fail with WSAEOPNOTSUPP come back to normal send
>>>>
>>>> But it will _always_ fail if people are using sendfd/recvfd as we (should)
>>>> document it, i.e. on SOCK_DGRAM sockets!
>>>
>>> Yes and if it fail we will fall back to the normal send, so no fail
>>
>> So why try in the first place?!?
> 
> In order to have a working solution for SOCK_STREAM

I'm confused.

If we document that sendfd/recvfd only work for SOCK_DGRAM, then why do
you want to support SOCK_STREAM?  That is, if we are going to document
the limitation, then why are you talking about working around the
limitation?

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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