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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.7 00/15] block: Lock images when opening


From: Richard W.M. Jones
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.7 00/15] block: Lock images when opening
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 20:15:52 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10)

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 05:09:49PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> Underneath is the fcntl syscall that locks the local file, similar to what is
> already used in libvirt virtlockd.  Also because of that, we cannot directly
> apply fcntl lock on the image file itself, instead we open and lock
> "/var/tmp/.qemu-$sha1.lock", where $sha1 is derived

Any particular reason why not /tmp instead of /var/tmp?  I assume
these are zero-sized or otherwise small files.

Rich.

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