[libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] v3: put dnsmasq parameters into a file instead of the command line

[Gene Czarcinski]

On 10/23/2012 01:13 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
> I tried your earlier --interface patch on F17 last night, and built it
> on F16 and RHEL6 but didn't get a chance to test it. So instead I'm
> going to try a build with both of these patches on the three platforms
> today and (hopefully) push them both prior to the 1.0.0 freeze late
> tonight. That way they'll have a reasonable amount of testing, and will
> get even more (and especially on other distros) during the freeze, with
> time enough to tweak (or even back out if necessary) before 1.0.0.
OK, there are "branches" at v0.10.2-maint, v0.9.11-maint, and 
v0.9.6-maint.  Would it be useful to attecmp backporting any of this 
stuff to those "levels"?

Here is what I sent to the dnsmasq discussion list:
> It would be useful to libvirt if dnsmasq would reread the 
> configuration file and/or the files in the configuration directory 
> upon demand (via SIG<something>) as is done for some other files.
>
> Right now, when minor changes are made to a network configuration, it 
> is necessary to restart dnsmasq to get those changes adopted.
>
> Is this a possibility this could be done or is this one of those 
> things that yes, it could be done, but it would require rewriting most 
> of dnsmasq. What types of changes might be accommodated? What if these 
> changeable definitions were put into a special configuration file?
>
> Example: v6 or v6 dhcp-range.
>
> Example of something that would unlikely be possible: interface= 

Can you provide a bit more info as to what you would like to change 
without restarting dnsmasq.

Gene