[libvirt] [PATCH] uml: Report error if inotify fails on driver startup

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Sun Dec 9 01:48:46 UTC 2012


---
Someone at KVM forum was actually hitting an error here, since their system
had exceeded the max number of inotify watches somehow.

 src/uml/uml_driver.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/uml/uml_driver.c b/src/uml/uml_driver.c
index 7eedaf1..887dca6 100644
--- a/src/uml/uml_driver.c
+++ b/src/uml/uml_driver.c
@@ -509,7 +509,8 @@ umlStartup(bool privileged,
     if (virFileMakePath(uml_driver->monitorDir) < 0) {
         char ebuf[1024];
         VIR_ERROR(_("Failed to create monitor directory %s: %s"),
-                  uml_driver->monitorDir, virStrerror(errno, ebuf, sizeof(ebuf)));
+                  uml_driver->monitorDir,
+                  virStrerror(errno, ebuf, sizeof(ebuf)));
         goto error;
     }
 
@@ -517,6 +518,10 @@ umlStartup(bool privileged,
     if (inotify_add_watch(uml_driver->inotifyFD,
                           uml_driver->monitorDir,
                           IN_CREATE | IN_MODIFY | IN_DELETE) < 0) {
+        char ebuf[1024];
+        VIR_ERROR(_("Failed to create inotify watch on %s: %s"),
+                  uml_driver->monitorDir,
+                  virStrerror(errno, ebuf, sizeof(ebuf)));
         goto error;
     }
 
-- 
1.8.0.1




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