[Libguestfs] [PATCH 0/7] Better testing of the guestfsd daemon.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Currently we are unable to properly run guestfsd (the daemon) under
valgrind.  Attempts to run valgrind inside the appliance have not been
successful (see patch 1/7).

However we desperately need better valgrind coverage of the daemon,
particularly because it is doing a lot of complex parsing of program
output.  This has been a problem for a long time.

A better way to attack this problem is to run the daemon as a regular
host process and connect libguestfs directly to it.  Because of
'libguestfs live' functionality this is quite simple: we are able to
connect the library to any Unix domain socket and talk directly to the
daemon.

This patch series modified the daemon so it can be run as a standalone
process listening on a Unix domain socket, adds new tests which run
the daemon as a host process, and a simple framework to run the daemon
under valgrind.

Rich.