[libvirt] [PATCH] util: Remove logging handlers in virExec

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 03:54:39PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 01/12/2010 03:46 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 03:26:26PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> >> This allows debug statements and raised errors in hook functions to
> >> actually be logged somewhere (stderr). Users can enable debugging in the
> >> daemon and now see more info in /var/log/libvirt/...
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >>  src/util/util.c |    6 ++++++
> >>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/src/util/util.c b/src/util/util.c
> >> index 44a4b2f..23d781d 100644
> >> --- a/src/util/util.c
> >> +++ b/src/util/util.c
> >> @@ -334,6 +334,7 @@ __virExec(virConnectPtr conn,
> >>      int pipeerr[2] = {-1,-1};
> >>      int childout = -1;
> >>      int childerr = -1;
> >> +    int logprio;
> >>      sigset_t oldmask, newmask;
> >>      struct sigaction sig_action;
> >>  
> >> @@ -452,6 +453,11 @@ __virExec(virConnectPtr conn,
> >>         of being seen / logged */
> >>      virSetErrorFunc(NULL, NULL);
> >>  
> >> +    /* Make sure any hook logging is sent to stderr */
> >> +    logprio = virLogGetDefaultPriority();
> >> +    virLogReset();
> >> +    virLogSetDefaultPriority(logprio);
> >> +
> > 
> > I'm not sure that I understand this - surely the child process is already
> > inheriting this setup from the parent libvirtd ?
> > 
> > Daniel
> 
> Problem is that virExec closes only the file descriptors it is using,
> which means it will close the file descriptors for any nontrivial
> logging handlers. I could add some internal logging API to get the
> relevant fds and keep them from being closed, but not sure if we
> necessarily want to preserve those for a daemonized process?

Oh of course - can you put a comment to that effect in your patch as a 
reminder.  ACK to the patch 

Daniel
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