[libvirt] [PATCH v4 1/7] pidfile: Make checking binary path in virPidFileRead optional

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Sat Feb 11 00:23:43 UTC 2012


On 02/06/2012 06:50 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> This patch changes behavior of virPidFileRead to enable passing NULL as
> path to the binary the pid file should be checked against to skip this
> check. This enables using this function for reading files that have same
> semantics as pid files, but belong to unknown processes.
> ---
>  src/util/virpidfile.c |   21 +++++++++++++--------
>  1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/util/virpidfile.c b/src/util/virpidfile.c
> index 1fd6318..f1f721f 100644
> --- a/src/util/virpidfile.c
> +++ b/src/util/virpidfile.c
> @@ -184,6 +184,9 @@ int virPidFileRead(const char *dir,
>   * resolves to @binpath. This adds protection against
>   * recycling of previously reaped pids.
>   *
> + * If @binpath is NULL the check for the executable path
> + * is skipped.
> + *
>   * Returns -errno upon error, or zero on successful
>   * reading of the pidfile. If the PID was not still
>   * alive, zero will be returned, but @pid will be
> @@ -209,16 +212,18 @@ int virPidFileReadPathIfAlive(const char *path,
>      }
>  #endif
> 
> -    if (virAsprintf(&procpath, "/proc/%d/exe", *pid) < 0) {
> -        *pid = -1;
> -        return -1;
> -    }
> +    if (binpath) {
> +        if (virAsprintf(&procpath, "/proc/%d/exe", *pid) < 0) {

This will need to be rebased if my pid_t cleanup patches go in first:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-February/msg00560.html

My ACK from v3 still stands.

Also, I'm torn on whether this still qualifies for 0.9.10 (it's a useful
feature fix, but due to slow reviews, we've let it slip pretty far past
the freeze date).  Thoughts?

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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