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Diffstat (limited to 'passt-repair.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | passt-repair.1 | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/passt-repair.1 b/passt-repair.1 index 7c1b140..e65aadd 100644 --- a/passt-repair.1 +++ b/passt-repair.1 @@ -16,13 +16,17 @@ .B passt-repair is a privileged helper setting and clearing repair mode on TCP sockets on behalf of \fBpasst\fR(1), as instructed via single-byte commands over a UNIX domain -socket, specified by \fIPATH\fR. +socket. It can be used to migrate TCP connections between guests without granting additional capabilities to \fBpasst\fR(1) itself: to migrate TCP connections, \fBpasst\fR(1) leverages repair mode, which needs the \fBCAP_NET_ADMIN\fR capability (see \fBcapabilities\fR(7)) to be set or cleared. +If \fIPATH\fR represents a UNIX domain socket, \fBpasst-repair\fR(1) attempts to +connect to it. If it is a directory, \fBpasst-repair\fR(1) waits until a file +ending with \fI.repair\fR appears in it, and then attempts to connect to it. + .SH PROTOCOL \fBpasst-repair\fR(1) connects to \fBpasst\fR(1) using the socket specified via |