Re: [Qemu-devel] bug writing pidfile under unix (and fix)

[Paul Brook]

On Friday 07 November 2008, Jim Bailey wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In qemu_create_pidfile (osdep.c:229) the current pid and a newline is
> written to the pidfile. However, the pidfile isn't truncated, so if it
> is longer than the length of the pid and the newline character you get
> trailing junk that can really mess up scripts.

Shouldn't we just open with O_TRUNC ?

I also notice that we're not removing the file when we exit.

Paul