Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 0.14.0-rc2 is available

[Anthony Liguori]

On 02/16/2011 10:52 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 02/16/11 17:37, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > On 02/16/2011 10:28 AM, Rick Vernam wrote:
> > > Using 0.14.0-rc2 it looks like a SPICE pid file is left over in
> > > /dev/shm, ie
> > > spice.10005, after qemu closes.
> >
> > I think that's coming from libspice, not QEMU.
>
> Indeed.  It isn't a pidfile, it is a shared memory segment where spice 
> stores statistics.  spice registers a cleanup handler via atexit() 
> which removes this

fork() with an inherited pipe and then waiting for EOF on the pipe() is 
a bit more robust of a mechanism to handle this.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> , so you should not see this unless qemu crashes and thus the atexit() 
> handlers are not called.
>
> cheers,
>   Gerd