On 05/06/2014 08:52 AM, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Yes, I am in fact using OpenStack/libvirt, and did eventually track down
> libvirt as the code that was cleaning up the monitor socket.
> 
> Even so, I think this sort of change would be valid in qemu itself. qemu
> created the files, so really it should be up to qemu to delete them when
> it's done with them.
> 
> They're not usable for anything with qemu not running, so there's no
> good reason to leave them laying around.

In the case of sVirt with SELinux labeling, it's often the case that
libvirt has to pre-create the file (as qemu itself is prevented from
creating the file itself) - that is also an argument for libvirt doing
the cleanup.

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