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Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] [RFC] Upstreaming virtio-wayland (or an alternative)


On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 07:11:40PM +0900, David Stevens wrote:
> > But there also is "unix socket", or maybe a somewhat broader "stream",
> > which would be another feature flag I guess because virtio-ipc would
> > just tunnel the stream without the help from other devices.
> 
> Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? I can envision how
> virtio-ipc would be a generic mechanism for passing data+virtio
> resources, including any new types of resources it itself defines.
> However, if "unix sockets" or a generic "stream" expands beyond
> virtio, that seems too broad, with too many edge cases to be feasible
> to implement.

As far I know this is exactly what virtio-wayland does today if you try
to pass a unix socket file descriptor to the other side, so I assume
this functionality is needed ...

cheers,
  Gerd



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