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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 5/9] Monitor: Return before exiting with
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:52:29 +0200
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 04/26/2010 09:44 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > +    qemu_system_exit_request();
> 
> Untested suggestion: why add qemu_system_exit_request, exit_requested, 
> and a hook in the main loop?  You can do instead
> 
>     no_shutdown = 0;
>     qemu_system_shutdown_request();
> 
> which will actually call quit_timers() and net_cleanup() properly unlike 
> a blind exit(0).

 Hm, this looks good. It has the side effect of emitting the SHUTDOWN
event, but maybe this is even desirable.

 I will send a patch if there are no objections.

> Alternatively, just give an error when "quit"-ting from QMP and keep the 
> current behavior for non-QMP.  This way you do not provide two ways to 
> do the same thing.  People will have to avoid -no-shutdown (I don't see 
> how it is useful from QMP) and they will be able to use the "shutdown" 
> monitor command.

 Not sure if I got you here, why should we return an error?