Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2 of 3] blktap3/libxl: Check whether blktap3 is available

[Thanos Makatos <thanos.makatos@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > +/* FIXME get the tapback name from blktap3 instead of hard-coding */
> > +#define TAPBACK_NAME "tapback"
> > +#define CMD "pidof " TAPBACK_NAME
> 
> I'm afraid I'm fundamentally unhappy with this approach to detecting
> the availability of blktap3.  Searching the process table for process
> with particular names is not a good idea.
> 
> Can't you try to connect to its control socket ?

Sure.

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