This option, used for testing, causes the daemon to create the Unix
domain socket (from guestfs_channel), listen on it, and accept a
single connection.
---
daemon/guestfsd.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
daemon/guestfsd.pod | 9 ++++++++
2 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/daemon/guestfsd.c b/daemon/guestfsd.c
index 8285d27..1bcdfa3 100644
--- a/daemon/guestfsd.c
+++ b/daemon/guestfsd.c
@@ -139,15 +139,17 @@ usage (void)
int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
- static const char *options = "rtv?";
+ static const char *options = "lrtv?";
static const struct option long_options[] = {
{ "help", 0, 0, '?' },
+ { "listen", 0, 0, 'l' },
{ "test", 0, 0, 't' },
{ "verbose", 0, 0, 'v' },
{ 0, 0, 0, 0 }
};
int c;
char *cmdline;
+ int listen_mode = 0;
ignore_value (chdir ("/"));
@@ -186,6 +188,10 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
if (c == -1) break;
switch (c) {
+ case 'l':
+ listen_mode = 1;
+ break;
+
/* The -r flag is used when running standalone. It changes
* several aspects of the daemon.
*/
@@ -292,23 +298,46 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
if (verbose)
printf ("trying to open virtio-serial channel '%s'\n", channel);
- int sock = open (channel, O_RDWR|O_CLOEXEC);
- if (sock == -1) {
- fprintf (stderr,
- "\n"
- "Failed to connect to virtio-serial channel.\n"
- "\n"
- "This is a fatal error and the appliance will now exit.\n"
- "\n"
- "Usually this error is caused by either QEMU or the appliance\n"
- "kernel not supporting the vmchannel method that the\n"
- "libguestfs library chose to use. Please run\n"
- "'libguestfs-test-tool' and provide the complete,
unedited\n"
- "output to the libguestfs developers, either in a bug report\n"
- "or on the libguestfs redhat com mailing list.\n"
- "\n");
- perror (channel);
- exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
+ int sock;
+ if (!listen_mode) {
+ sock = open (channel, O_RDWR|O_CLOEXEC);
+ if (sock == -1) {
+ fprintf (stderr,
+ "\n"
+ "Failed to connect to virtio-serial channel.\n"
+ "\n"
+ "This is a fatal error and the appliance will now exit.\n"
+ "\n"
+ "Usually this error is caused by either QEMU or the
appliance\n"
+ "kernel not supporting the vmchannel method that the\n"
+ "libguestfs library chose to use. Please run\n"
+ "'libguestfs-test-tool' and provide the complete,
unedited\n"
+ "output to the libguestfs developers, either in a bug report\n"
+ "or on the libguestfs redhat com mailing list.\n"
+ "\n");
+ perror (channel);
+ exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
+ }
+ else {
+ struct sockaddr_un addr;
+
+ sock = socket (AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC, 0);
+ if (sock == -1)
+ error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "socket");
+ addr.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
+ strncpy (addr.sun_path, channel, UNIX_PATH_MAX);
+ addr.sun_path[UNIX_PATH_MAX-1] = '\0';
+
+ if (bind (sock, (struct sockaddr *) &addr, sizeof addr) == -1)
+ error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "bind: %s", channel);
+
+ if (listen (sock, 4) == -1)
+ error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "listen");
+
+ sock = accept4 (sock, NULL, NULL, SOCK_CLOEXEC);
+ if (sock == -1)
+ error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "accept");
}
/* If it's a serial-port like device then it probably has echoing
diff --git a/daemon/guestfsd.pod b/daemon/guestfsd.pod
index 1ed31a9..22c8003 100644
--- a/daemon/guestfsd.pod
+++ b/daemon/guestfsd.pod
@@ -50,6 +50,15 @@ removed.
Display brief help.
+=item B<-l>
+
+=item B<--listen>
+
+Instead of opening the C<guestfs_channel> and thus expecting that it
+already exists, create the channel as a Unix domain socket, listen on
+it, and accept a single connection. This is mainly used for testing
+the daemon.
+
=item B<-r>
Set the root filesystem to be F</> (instead of the default which is
--
2.3.1