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charset=\"us-ascii\"", "Content-Transfer-Encoding": "7bit", "Errors-To": "ovs-dev-bounces@openvswitch.org", "Sender": "\"dev\" <ovs-dev-bounces@openvswitch.org>" }, "content": "Currently ovsdb-server creates its own Unix domain socket at\n/run/openvswitch/db.sock, and dependent services need explicit\nordering and assertion checks to ensure the socket is available.\n\nThis series transfers socket ownership to systemd, which creates\nthe listening socket before any service starts. The socket remains\navailable across service restarts, so clients queue instead of\ngetting connection failures.\n\nChanges since v1:\n - stream: Use str_to_long() instead of strtol(); return EINVAL\n instead of ERANGE on invalid fd number (Aaron Conole).\n - ovs-ctl: Also unset LISTEN_PIDFDID when clearing socket\n activation environment variables (Aaron Conole).\n\nTimothy Redaelli (5):\n stream: Add \"pfd:\" passive stream for pre-opened file descriptors.\n ovs-ctl: Detect systemd socket activation.\n rhel: Add ovsdb-server.socket unit for systemd socket activation.\n debian: Add ovsdb-server.socket unit for systemd socket activation.\n tests: Add pfd stream tests.\n\n Documentation/ref/ovsdb.7.rst | 12 +\n debian/automake.mk | 1 +\n debian/openvswitch-switch.install | 1 +\n .../openvswitch-switch.ovs-vswitchd.service | 5 +-\n .../openvswitch-switch.ovsdb-server.service | 1 +\n debian/openvswitch-switch.ovsdb-server.socket | 11 +\n lib/stream-provider.h | 1 +\n lib/stream-unix.c | 52 ++++\n lib/stream.c | 5 +\n ovsdb/ovsdb-server.c | 23 +-\n rhel/automake.mk | 1 +\n rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec.in | 4 +\n ..._system_ovs-delete-transient-ports.service | 3 +-\n ...lib_systemd_system_ovs-vswitchd.service.in | 5 +-\n ...sr_lib_systemd_system_ovsdb-server.service | 1 +\n ...usr_lib_systemd_system_ovsdb-server.socket | 17 ++\n tests/automake.mk | 1 +\n tests/pfd-stream.at | 248 ++++++++++++++++++\n tests/testsuite.at | 1 +\n utilities/ovs-ctl.in | 8 +-\n 20 files changed, 391 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)\n create mode 100644 debian/openvswitch-switch.ovsdb-server.socket\n create mode 100644 rhel/usr_lib_systemd_system_ovsdb-server.socket\n create mode 100644 tests/pfd-stream.at" }