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

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Sat Oct 31 23:57:50 UTC 2009


On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 02:29:42PM +0100, Laurent L?onard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not a C expert, but I see there is a use of an unitialized variable:
> 
>     default:
>         {
>             int got, exitstatus = 0;
>             int ret;
>             char status;
> 
>             close(statuspipe[1]);
> 
>             /* We wait to make sure the first child forked successfully */
>             if ((got = waitpid(pid, &exitstatus, 0)) < 0 ||
>                 got != pid ||
>                 status != 0) {   <<< here
>                 return -1;
>             }
> 
> That explains the issue described by Guido, because he uses an i386 system. It 
> was impossible for me to reproduce the issue because I use an amd64 system.

Ahh, nicely spotted!  I'll fix this

Daniel
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