Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] keep the PID file locked for the lifetime of the process

[Anthony Liguori]

On 01/27/2012 07:34 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> The lockf() call in qemu_create_pidfile() aims at ensuring mutual
> exclusion. We shouldn't close the pidfile on success (as introduced by
> commit 1bbd1592), because that drops the lock as well [1]:
>
>      "File locks shall be released on first close by the locking process
>      of any file descriptor for the file."
>
> Coverity may complain again about the leaked file descriptor; let's
> worry about that later.
>
> v1->v2:
> - add reference to 1bbd1592
> - explain the intentional fd leak in the source
>
> [1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lockf.html

Applied.  Thanks.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek<address@hidden>
> ---
>   os-posix.c |    2 +-
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/os-posix.c b/os-posix.c
> index 5c437ca..e3ed497 100644
> --- a/os-posix.c
> +++ b/os-posix.c
> @@ -348,6 +348,6 @@ int qemu_create_pidfile(const char *filename)
>           return -1;
>       }
>
> -    close(fd);
> +    /* keep pidfile open&  locked forever */
>       return 0;
>   }