From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm tools: Add robust error handling for fork/waitpid() Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:34:40 +0200 Message-ID: <20110418063440.GA12814@elte.hu> References: <20110416095543.GA7305@elte.hu> <20110418001250.4934.17958.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, penberg@kernel.org, asias.hejun@gmail.com To: Amos Kong Return-path: Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:42440 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752573Ab1DRGep (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2011 02:34:45 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110418001250.4934.17958.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: * Amos Kong wrote: > + } else if (pid > 0) { > + while(waitpid(pid, &status, 0) != pid) { > } > } Doesn't that look like an infinite loop when waitpid() returns an error? Thanks, Ingo