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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Jim Bailey <dgym.bailey@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] bug writing pidfile under unix (and fix)
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 18:56:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811071756.12371.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081107170215.7ca43a08@dgym.ktulu>

On Friday 07 November 2008, Jim Bailey wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In qemu_create_pidfile (osdep.c:229) the current pid and a newline is
> written to the pidfile. However, the pidfile isn't truncated, so if it
> is longer than the length of the pid and the newline character you get
> trailing junk that can really mess up scripts.

Shouldn't we just open with O_TRUNC ?

I also notice that we're not removing the file when we exit.

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-07 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-07 17:02 [Qemu-devel] bug writing pidfile under unix (and fix) Jim Bailey
2008-11-07 17:56 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2008-11-07 18:08   ` Jim Bailey
2008-11-07 20:15   ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-07 20:33     ` Jim Bailey
2008-11-11 21:05 ` Anthony Liguori

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