Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] qemu-ga: guest-shutdown: become synchronous

[Eric Blake]

On 05/11/2012 01:19 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> Last commit dropped qemu-ga's SIGCHLD handler, used to automatically
> reap terminated children processes. This introduced a bug to
> qmp_guest_shutdown(): it will generate zombies.
> 
> This problem probably doesn't matter in the success case, as the VM
> will shutdown anyway, but let's do the right thing and reap the
> created process. This ultimately means that guest-shutdown is now a
> synchronous command.
> 
> An interesting side effect is that guest-shutdown is now able to
> report an error to the client if shutting down fails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden>
> ---
>  qga/commands-posix.c |   19 ++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 

>          exit(!!ret);
> -    } else if (ret < 0) {
> -        error_set(err, QERR_UNDEFINED_ERROR);
> +    } else if (pid < 0) {
> +        goto exit_err;
>      }
> +
> +    rpid = waitpid(pid, &status, 0);
> +    if (rpid == pid && WIFEXITED(status) && !WEXITSTATUS(status)) {

And another case where waitpid should be used in a loop.

Other than that, I'm in favor of this series.

-- 
Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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