In virFileOperation, the parent does a fallback to a non-fork
attempt if it detects that the child returned EACCES. However,
the child was calling _exit(-EACCESS), which does _not_ appear
as EACCES in the parent.
* src/util/util.c (virFileOperation): Correctly pass EACCES from
child to parent.
---
src/util/util.c | 9 +++++++++
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/util/util.c b/src/util/util.c
index bac71c8..0fe1c41 100644
--- a/src/util/util.c
+++ b/src/util/util.c
@@ -1559,6 +1559,15 @@ parenterror:
goto childerror;
}
childerror:
+ /* Hook sets ret to -errno on failure, but exit must be positive.
+ * If we exit with EACCES, then parent tries again. */
+ /* XXX This makes assumptions about errno being < 255, which is
+ * not true on Hurd. */
+ ret = -ret;
+ if ((ret & 0xff) != ret) {
+ VIR_WARN("unable to pass desired return value %d", ret);
+ ret = 0xff;
+ }
_exit(ret);
}
--
1.7.4
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