The SSSD needs a config_from_fd() variant of the config_from_file() call so that we can preopen a config file and perform some verification on it before parsing it. The config_from_fd() call is used to avoid race conditions between testing the file and reading it in.
Note: the *_from_fd() functions still require the config file name for internal information. This does not imply that it is used to open the file.