From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: virtio-dev-return-6812-cohuck=redhat.com@lists.oasis-open.org Sender: List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Received: from lists.oasis-open.org (oasis-open.org [10.110.1.242]) by lists.oasis-open.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC1B6985ED0 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:30:52 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 11:30:41 +0100 From: Gerd Hoffmann Message-ID: <20200228103041.j7dt3236qckqb7v7@sirius.home.kraxel.org> References: <20200207182842.770bfb27@collabora.com> <20200225162105.1912fae0@collabora.com> <20200227100951.19e5c8df@collabora.com> <20200227144322.qasfqiyg47vfcqur@sirius.home.kraxel.org> <20200228090404.656686c5@collabora.com> <20200228092757.mvcm3c5rbafloold@sirius.home.kraxel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] [RFC] Upstreaming virtio-wayland (or an alternative) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline To: David Stevens Cc: Boris Brezillon , Stefan Hajnoczi , Zach Reizner , =?utf-8?B?U3TDqXBoYW5l?= Marchesin , Tomeu Vizoso , Tomasz Figa , virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, Alexandros Frantzis List-ID: 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. >=20 > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: virtio-dev-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: virtio-dev-help@lists.oasis-open.org