From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGey1-0007DO-Ne for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:27:53 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGexz-0007BA-Tj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:27:53 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGexz-0007B0-My for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:27:51 -0500 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5] helo=grelber.thyrsus.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HGexz-0004SV-EK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:27:51 -0500 From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests. Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:27:47 -0500 References: <200702091719.16429.rob@landley.net> <200702092306.25097.paul@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <200702092306.25097.paul@codesourcery.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702121227.47557.rob@landley.net> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Paul Brook On Friday 09 February 2007 6:06 pm, Paul Brook wrote: > > Sure, but there are plenty of other ways to accidentally mess up the > > permissions of a disk image file. A while back I had to strace qemu to > > figure out why file modifications were vanishing after rebooting the > > VM; the culprit turned out to be an unrelated script that had set the > > image file's mode to 444. > > If you really want to do this, do it properly. Make it an error to use a ro > image if the user [implicitly] requests rw access. If there's no middle ground between "silently misbehave" and "refuse to start if anything _might_ be wrong", then why does current qemu warn about the 1024 hz thing? Just curious. Refusing to start would have saved me a day's debugging time, just like the warning would have... Rob -- "Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery