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passt, tap: Add --fd option

This passes a fully connected stream socket to passt.

Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
[sbrivio: reuse fd_tap instead of adding a new descriptor,
 imply --one-off on --fd, add to optstring and usage()]
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
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Richard W.M. Jones 2022-11-17 18:49:34 +00:00 committed by Stefano Brivio
parent 15119dcf6c
commit 6b4e68383c
5 changed files with 46 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -297,6 +297,16 @@ Path for UNIX domain socket used by \fBqemu\fR(1) or \fBqrap\fR(1) to connect to
Default is to probe a free socket, not accepting connections, starting from
\fI/tmp/passt_1.socket\fR to \fI/tmp/passt_64.socket\fR.
.TP
.BR \-F ", " \-\-fd " " \fIFD
Pass a pre-opened, connected socket to \fBpasst\fR. Usually the socket is opened
in the parent process and \fBpasst\fR inherits it when run as a child. This
allows the parent process to open sockets using another address family or
requiring special privileges.
This option implies the behaviour described for \-\-one-off, once this socket
is closed.
.TP
.BR \-1 ", " \-\-one-off
Quit after handling a single client connection, that is, once the client closes