[libvirt] Initial working Mac OS X libvirt client build

[Eric Blake]

On 10/25/2010 05:19 AM, Ruben Kerkhof wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:48, Daniel P. Berrange<berrange at redhat.com>  wrote:
>>
>> NACK, this results in 'path' being a zer-length string, so no data is
>> copied in the next virStrcpyStatic line. The original code is correctly
>> creating a socket in the abstract namespace, ie one which does not
>> appear in the filesystem
>>
>> Daniel
>
> Ah, I didn't knew that, sorry.
>
> Am I right in assuming that an abstract namespace is a linux-only feature?
> The unix manpage on my Mac doesn't describe it, neither does FreeBSD
> (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=unix&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE&format=html).

Correct - sun_path starting with a NUL byte is a Linux extension, and 
not portable to other hosts (except maybe Cygwin).  We need to come up 
with an alternative to the abstract namespace for use on non-Linux hosts.

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