[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] READCONFIG: allow /dev/fd/ the file to use for --readconfig

[Ronnie Sahlberg]

On many platforms /dev/fd/<n> is used to refer to open filedescriptor <n> of 
the running process.
If we fail to open the provided filename and if the filename starts with 
'/dev/fd/' then assume this is a platform which do not support these special 
files.
In that case read out the descriptor value from the provided string and fdopen 
it.

This allows to use /dev/fd/<n> syntax on all platforms, those that do provide 
this indeface in /dev  and an emulation of this for the platforms that do not 
provide /dev/fd

Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <address@hidden>
---
 qemu-config.c   |   16 +++++++++++++++-
 qemu-options.hx |    3 ++-
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qemu-config.c b/qemu-config.c
index 7d9da78..96e7497 100644
--- a/qemu-config.c
+++ b/qemu-config.c
@@ -814,9 +814,23 @@ out:
 
 int qemu_read_config_file(const char *filename)
 {
-    FILE *f = fopen(filename, "r");
+    FILE *f;
     int ret;
 
+    f = fopen(filename, "r");
+
+    if (f == NULL && !strncmp(filename, "/dev/fd/", 8)) {
+        int fd;
+        char *ptr = NULL;
+
+        errno = 0;
+        fd = strtol(filename + 8, &ptr, 10);
+        if (errno != 0 || ptr == filename + 8 || *ptr != '\0') {
+            return -EINVAL;
+        }
+        f = fdopen(fd, "r");
+    }
+
     if (f == NULL) {
         return -errno;
     }
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index b129996..c70c6e7 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -2650,7 +2650,8 @@ DEF("readconfig", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_readconfig,
 STEXI
 @item -readconfig @var{file}
 @findex -readconfig
-Read device configuration from @var{file}.
+Read device configuration from @var{file}. Use '/dev/fd/<n>' as filename
+to read from an existing, inherited, filedesriptor.
 ETEXI
 DEF("writeconfig", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_writeconfig,
     "-writeconfig <file>\n"
-- 
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