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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Prevent disk data loss when closing qemu
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Prevent disk data loss when closing qemu |
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Thu, 24 May 2012 15:46:49 +0200 |
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Il 24/05/2012 14:49, Andreas Färber ha scritto:
>> > - exit(STATUS_CONTROL_C_EXIT);
>> > + qemu_system_shutdown_request();
>> > + /* Windows 7 kills application when the function returns.
>> > + Sleep here to give QEMU a try for closing */
>> > + Sleep(10000);
> How do we know that 10000 is enough? Shouldn't we rather block until
> receipt of some completion signal?
After 10s Windows will kill us anyway. Think of it as SIGTERM/SIGKILL.
Using a completion signal would be more polite (the QEMU process would
disappear as soon as possible), but the outcome would be the same.
Paolo