On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 02:28:46AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 03:20:15PM -0700, Dave Leskovec wrote: > > + if (ESRCH == errno) { > > + rc = 0; > > + DEBUG("pid %d no longer exists", def->id); > > + goto done; > > + } > > + > > + lxcError(NULL, NULL, VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, > > + _("error checking container process: %d %s"), > > + def->id, strerror(errno)); > > + goto done; > > + } > > The problem though is that by doing just a passive test for the PID > it feels like there is a possible race if the process counter rolled over and > another process with the same PID got create in the meantime. > i have the feeling that a test based on the state of the file descriptors > used to communicate with the container would be more reliable. Basically if the > container disapear, then the pipe should get in a half-closed state, > detecting the change at that level sounds like it would be more reliable, > don't you think so ? Yes, after checking the PID still exists, it needs to validate /proc/$PID/exe to verify it points to the binary we expect it to. Regards, Dan. -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, Boston -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list