[Pkg-vsquare-devel] Bug#701854: vde2: vde_switch --daemon should not return before interface is available

[Marc Lehmann]

Package: vde2
Version: 2.3.2-4
Severity: wishlist

Currently, when starting vde_switch --daemon, it returns before creating the interface.

That makes scripts using it unnecessarily very awkward to write - you have
to wait for it to appear, but at the same time decide whether something
went wrong.

It would be better if vde_switch --daemon would only return when the
interface is available. There is ample precedence for this behaviour in
daemons that only daemonize when they are bound to their socket or created
other services, so there is a defined way to start them not involving
sleep 1 loops or similar hacks.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages vde2 depends on:
ii  adduser      3.113+nmu3
ii  libc6        2.13-38
ii  libpcap0.8   1.3.0-1
ii  libvde0      2.3.2-4
ii  libvdeplug2  2.3.2-4

vde2 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages vde2 suggests:
ii  qemu           1.1.2+dfsg-5
ii  qemu-kvm       1.1.2+dfsg-5
pn  vde2-cryptcab  <none>

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