On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 07:05:32PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 3/2/22 18:38, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > > On 2/3/22 18:31, Sergio Lopez wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 06:18:59PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > > > > On 2/3/22 18:10, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > > > On 3/2/22 12:36, Sergio Lopez wrote: > > > > > > With the possibility of using pipefd as a replacement on operating > > > > > > systems that doesn't support eventfd, vhost-user can also work on BSD > > > > > > systems. > > > > > > > > > > > > This change allows enabling vhost-user on BSD platforms too and > > > > > > makes libvhost_user (which still depends on eventfd) a linux-only > > > > > > feature. > > > > > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Sergio Lopez <slp@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > > > > I would just check for !windows. > > > > > > > > What about Darwin / Haiku / Illumnos? > > > > > > It should work on every system providing pipe() or pipe2(), so I guess > > > Paolo's right, every platform except Windows. FWIW, I already tested > > > it with Darwin. > > > > Wow, nice. > > > > So maybe simply check for pipe/pipe2 rather than !windows? > > What you really need is not pipes, but AF_UNIX. Recent Windows has AF_UNIX so don't check for that ! What you really need is AF_UNIX and FD passing and pipes and probably more POSIX only features ... Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|