[libvirt] [PATCH 10/21] Don't let parent of daemon exit until basic initialization is done

Guido Günther agx at sigxcpu.org
Wed Oct 28 14:22:38 UTC 2009


Hi Daniel,
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 02:05:39PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The daemonizing code lets the parent exit almost immediately. This
> means that it may think it has successfully started even when
> important failures occur like not being able to acquire the PID
> file. It also means network sockets are not yet open.
With this patch applied to 0.7.2 I'm seeing:

# libvirtd -d
15:20:22.457: error : main:2971 : Failed to fork as daemon: Success

about every second time I start the daemon. Any idea where this comes
from?
Cheers,
 -- Guido




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