From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56775 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ppkbu-0001k9-Sg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:52:15 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ppkbu-00045X-6s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:52:15 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:36939) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ppkbt-000450-VJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:52:14 -0500 Message-ID: <4D5C00B3.8050006@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:52:03 +0100 From: Gerd Hoffmann MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 0.14.0-rc2 is available References: <4D5AF4C4.80005@codemonkey.ws> <201102161028.02238.rickv@hobi.com> <4D5BFD3F.400@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <4D5BFD3F.400@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 02/16/11 17:37, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 02/16/2011 10:28 AM, Rick Vernam wrote: >> Using 0.14.0-rc2 it looks like a SPICE pid file is left over in >> /dev/shm, ie >> spice.10005, after qemu closes. > > I think that's coming from libspice, not QEMU. Indeed. It isn't a pidfile, it is a shared memory segment where spice stores statistics. spice registers a cleanup handler via atexit() which removes this, so you should not see this unless qemu crashes and thus the atexit() handlers are not called. cheers, Gerd