loop.py is a simple wrapper around the kernel loop API. remoteloop.py
uses this to create a server/clinet pair that communicates over an
AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM socket to allow the server to create loop devices
for the client.
The client passes a fd that should be bound to the resulting loop
device, and a dir-fd where the loop device node should be created.
The server returns the name of the device node to the client.
The idea is that the client is run from whithin a container without
access to devtmpfs (and hence /dev/loop-control), and the server
runs on the host. The client would typically pass its (fake) /dev
as the output directory.
For the client this will be similar to `losetup -f foo.img --show`.
[@larskarlitski: pylint: ignore the new LoopInfo class, because it
only has dynamic attributes. Also disable attribute-defined-outside-init,
which (among other problems) is not ignored for that class.]
Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
