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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Pierre Riteau <Pierre.Riteau@irisa.fr>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] qemu-nbd: do not start the block layer in the parent
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:17:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EAA9D65.1080108@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <90216E5F-CF18-4A44-BBCF-0DFB68259296@irisa.fr>

On 10/28/2011 02:16 PM, Pierre Riteau wrote:
> Yes, it would be better if we could have error output on stderr. Now,
> "simple" errors such as a missing image file (or wrong path to the
> image) are reported to syslog instead. It could be the source of some
> headaches...
>
> Is there a way we could have the child send the error to the parent
> over a pipe and have the parent print it on stderr?

A way could be to change the fork() into a separate thread, so that you 
can daemonize as soon as you accept the socket rather than having to do 
it early.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-28 12:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-28 10:17 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] fix qemu-nbd -c Paolo Bonzini
2011-10-28 10:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] qemu-nbd: exit if the child exits before a socket connection is established Paolo Bonzini
2011-10-28 10:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] qemu-nbd: include our own err/errx implementation Paolo Bonzini
2011-10-28 10:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] qemu-nbd: report errors to syslog when daemonized Paolo Bonzini
2011-10-28 10:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] qemu-nbd: do not start the block layer in the parent Paolo Bonzini
2011-10-28 11:56   ` Pierre Riteau
2011-10-28 11:57     ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-10-28 12:16       ` Pierre Riteau
2011-10-28 12:17         ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2011-11-04  9:46           ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-11-04 10:31             ` Kevin Wolf
2011-11-04 11:10               ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-11-04 11:22                 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-11-04 11:25                   ` Paolo Bonzini

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