[libvirt] [PATCH v2 6/8] virFDStream: Add option for delete file after it's opening

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Apr 6 08:59:21 UTC 2011


On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 10:55:40AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/05/2011 10:12 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> > This is needed if we want to transfer a temporary file. If the
> > transfer is done with iohelper, we might run into a race condition,
> > where we unlink() file before iohelper is executed.
> > 
> > * src/fdstream.c, src/fdstream.h,
> >   src/util/iohelper.c: Add new option
> > * src/lxc/lxc_driver.c, src/qemu/qemu_driver.c,
> >   src/storage/storage_driver.c, src/uml/uml_driver.c,
> >   src/xen/xen_driver.c: Expand existing function calls
> 
> I'm not convinced about this commit.  We should instead be fixing
> iohelper to receive its file by fd inheritance, so that it doesn't have
> to open() in the first place.  Then you don't need iohelper to worry
> about unlink().

My intention was that iohelper could also do uid/gid changes
in the future to cope with opening files on root squashing
NFS. For that we'd want it to be doing the open, not libvirtd

Regards,
Daniel
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