Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] Re: Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt

> You don't get a directory filled with a zillion socket files pointing > at dead guests. Agree that's a poor return on investment. Deleting it on atexit combined with flushing the whole directory at startup is a pretty reasonable solution to this (which is ultimately how the entirety of /var/run behaves). If you're really paranoid, you can fork() a helper with a shared pipe to implement unlink on close.