[libvirt] libvirt python is not correctly passing file descriptors to underlying virDomainCreateWithFiles

[Marian Neagul]

Attaching just in case the git formated patch.



On Oct 21, 2013, at 8:03 PM, Marian Neagul <marian at info.uvt.ro> wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> 	While working on a component handling container management I stumbled on a bug in the libvirt python bindings: basically the python bindings fail in properly translating the python file descriptor list to a native C array.
> 	The primary symptom was that inside the container the file descriptors are created but mapped to '/dev/null' instead of the original file descriptors
> 
> 	This problem was discovered in libvirt 1.1.2 but the problem exists also in the current git head.
> 
> 	I'm attaching a simple patch fixing the bug, and re-establishing the expected behaviour.
> 	I've also opened a bugzilla issue at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1021434
> 
> 	I hope this fix is acceptable and that it can be incorporated in the code base. :)
> 
> Marian  
> <libvirt-python-fix-lxc-fd-passing.patch>
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Marian Neagul
> Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara
> Facultatea de Matematică și Informatică
> Centrul de Cercetare in Informatica
> 
> marian at info.uvt.ro
> marian at hpc.uvt.ro
> 
> 
> 


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Marian Neagul
Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara
Facultatea de Matematică și Informatică
Centrul de Cercetare in Informatica

marian at info.uvt.ro
marian at hpc.uvt.ro



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