Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt

[Avi Kivity]

On 03/24/2010 02:32 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > You don't get a directory filled with a zillion socket files pointing 
> > at dead guests.  Agree that's a poor return on investment.
>
>
> Deleting it on atexit combined with flushing the whole directory at 
> startup is a pretty reasonable solution to this (which is ultimately 
> how the entirety of /var/run behaves).
>
> If you're really paranoid, you can fork() a helper with a shared pipe 
> to implement unlink on close.

My paranoia comes nowhere near to my dislike of forked helpers.

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