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One big downside of using the pipe to transfer the data is that we can really transfer just bare data. No metadata can be carried through unless some formatted messages are introduced. That would be quite painful to achieve so let's use a message queue. It's fairly easy to exchange info between threads now that iohelper is no longer used. The reason why we cannot use the FD for plain files directly is that despite us setting noblock flag on the FD, any read()/write() blocks regardless (which is a show stopper since those parts of the code are run from the event loop) and poll() reports such FD as always readable/writable - even though the subsequent operation might block. The pipe is still not gone though. It is used to signal the event loop that an event occurred (e.g. data is available for reading in the queue, or vice versa). Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>