Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] v3: put dnsmasq parameters into a file instead of the command line

On 10/23/2012 01:13 PM, Laine Stump wrote: > I tried your earlier --interface patch on F17 last night, and built it > on F16 and RHEL6 but didn't get a chance to test it. So instead I'm > going to try a build with both of these patches on the three platforms > today and (hopefully) push them both prior to the 1.0.0 freeze late > tonight. That way they'll have a reasonable amount of testing, and will > get even more (and especially on other distros) during the freeze, with > time enough to tweak (or even back out if necessary) before 1.0.0. OK, there are "branches" at v0.10.2-maint, v0.9.11-maint, and v0.9.6-maint. Would it be useful to attecmp backporting any of this stuff to those "levels"?

Here is what I sent to the dnsmasq discussion list: > It would be useful to libvirt if dnsmasq would reread the > configuration file and/or the files in the configuration directory > upon demand (via SIG<something>) as is done for some other files. > > Right now, when minor changes are made to a network configuration, it > is necessary to restart dnsmasq to get those changes adopted. > > Is this a possibility this could be done or is this one of those > things that yes, it could be done, but it would require rewriting > most of dnsmasq. What types of changes might be accommodated? What if > these changeable definitions were put into a special configuration file? > > Example: v6 or v6 dhcp-range. > > Example of something that would unlikely be possible: interface= Can you provide a bit more info as to what you would like to change without restarting dnsmasq.