On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:35:46AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Daniel Veillard wrote: > > - the ssh process dies > > - libvirt based application takes some time to notice it > > - the OS span a new process with the same PID after a PID rollabck > > Can not happen as long as libvirt hasn't asked for the exist status via > waitpid() because the pid is still in use by the zombie ssh process. Hum, which is precisely why we need the patch. Still I would feel a bit better if we could check that priv->pid is a child of the current process something like (getppid(priv->pid) == getpid()) test before any kill would do this easilly I think. Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list