[lvm-devel] [PATCH] Do not fork daemon when dmeventd cannot be found.

Milan Broz mbroz at redhat.com
Fri Jun 5 13:38:41 UTC 2009


Do not fork daemon when dmeventd cannot be found.

Otherwise it prints many errors about leaked pools.

(More elegant is properly release context, but this 
workaround is sufficient IMHO.)

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz at redhat.com>
---
 daemons/dmeventd/libdevmapper-event.c |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/daemons/dmeventd/libdevmapper-event.c b/daemons/dmeventd/libdevmapper-event.c
index 2650cf0..dae76d3 100644
--- a/daemons/dmeventd/libdevmapper-event.c
+++ b/daemons/dmeventd/libdevmapper-event.c
@@ -425,6 +425,12 @@ static int _start_daemon(struct dm_event_fifos *fifos)
 
       start_server:
 	/* server is not running */
+
+	if (stat(DMEVENTD_PATH, &statbuf)) {
+		log_error("Unable to find dmeventd.");
+		return_0;
+	}
+
 	pid = fork();
 
 	if (pid < 0)





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