From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37934 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ppkip-0001gQ-LN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:59:28 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ppkin-0005px-FX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:59:22 -0500 Received: from mail-qw0-f45.google.com ([209.85.216.45]:49258) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ppkin-0005ps-BB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:59:21 -0500 Received: by qwk4 with SMTP id 4so1542593qwk.4 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:59:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D5C0253.5050205@codemonkey.ws> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:58:59 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori 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> <4D5C00B3.8050006@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4D5C00B3.8050006@redhat.com> 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: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 02/16/2011 10:52 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > 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 fork() with an inherited pipe and then waiting for EOF on the pipe() is a bit more robust of a mechanism to handle this. Regards, Anthony Liguori > , so you should not see this unless qemu crashes and thus the atexit() > handlers are not called. > > cheers, > Gerd > >