[Libguestfs] [PATCH 2/3] Allow connecting to an externally spawned QEMU + appliance

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 08:22:30AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 12:26:00PM -0400, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 
> > @@ -1905,6 +1996,11 @@ guestfs__kill_subprocess (guestfs_h *g)
> >      return -1;
> >    }
> >  
> > +  if (strcmp(g->method, GUESTFS_LAUNCH_METHOD_SPAWN) != 0) {
> > +    error (g, _("cannot kill subprocess with launch method '%s'"), g->method);
> > +    return -1;
> > +  }
> > +

I'm thinking about removing this error, and just make it silently
return 0. If you change the attach method in guestfish or by setting
$GUESTFS_LAUNCH_METHOD before running an app, they'll all get an
error if they call kill_subprocess(). I think this isn't nice
because setting of $GUESTFS_LAUNCH_METHOD was supposed to be 
transparent to them. Hence probably best to just return 0.

> What does guestfs_get_pid return?  Possibly it will return -1
> (because g->pid == -1) but it won't set the error string.

Yep, it already returns -1, and sets an error string.

Daniel
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