From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Michael Goldish <mgoldish@redhat.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [autotest] vm creation fails (not)
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:43:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A79A8A5.20004@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <186914453.1505591249481143448.JavaMail.root@zmail05.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
On 08/05/2009 05:05 PM, Michael Goldish wrote:
> Thanks, I managed to reproduce it and I'll send a patch to fix it soon.
> The reason for autotest thinking qemu wasn't alive was that apparently it
> takes time for /proc/$PID/cmdline to reflect the real command used to
> start the process, and I wrongly assumed it was instantaneous.
>
You should use wait() to find out if the process is alive, not tricks
with the PID and process name, which are racy as you found out.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-05 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-08-05 10:16 ` [autotest] vm creation fails (not) Michael Goldish
2009-08-05 12:53 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-08-05 13:12 ` Michael Goldish
2009-08-05 13:21 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-08-05 14:05 ` Michael Goldish
2009-08-05 14:52 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-08-05 15:43 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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2009-08-06 10:43 ` Michael Goldish
2009-08-06 11:33 ` Avi Kivity
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2009-08-05 18:47 ` Michael Goldish
2009-08-06 10:23 ` Avi Kivity
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2009-08-05 15:48 ` Michael Goldish
2009-08-05 15:58 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-08-05 16:02 ` Avi Kivity
[not found] <1912575528.1512971249485400261.JavaMail.root@zmail05.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
2009-08-05 15:21 ` Michael Goldish
2009-08-05 9:45 Gerd Hoffmann
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