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The virtlockd daemon will maintain locks on behalf of libvirtd. There are two reasons for it to be separate - Avoid risk of other libvirtd threads accidentally releasing fcntl() locks by opening + closing a file that is locked - Ensure locks can be preserved across libvirtd restarts. virtlockd will need to be able to re-exec itself while maintaining locks. This is simpler to achieve if its sole job is maintaining locks Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@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>