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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	'qemu-devel' <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Pavel Dovgaluk <Pavel.Dovgaluk@ispras.ru>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Prevent disk data loss when closing qemu
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 15:46:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FBE3BC9.6070203@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FBE2E5E.6010107@suse.de>

Il 24/05/2012 14:49, Andreas Färber ha scritto:
>> > -    exit(STATUS_CONTROL_C_EXIT);
>> > +    qemu_system_shutdown_request();
>> > +    /* Windows 7 kills application when the function returns.
>> > +       Sleep here to give QEMU a try for closing */
>> > +    Sleep(10000);
> How do we know that 10000 is enough? Shouldn't we rather block until
> receipt of some completion signal?

After 10s Windows will kill us anyway.  Think of it as SIGTERM/SIGKILL.

Using a completion signal would be more polite (the QEMU process would
disappear as soon as possible), but the outcome would be the same.

Paolo

      reply	other threads:[~2012-05-24 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-24  7:42 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Prevent disk data loss when closing qemu Pavel Dovgaluk
2012-05-24 12:49 ` Andreas Färber
2012-05-24 13:46   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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