On 03/10/2011 12:54 PM, Laine Stump wrote: > Okay, I've figured out what happened - the permission on a parent of my > target directory on the NFS server had been changed during unrelated > testing from (root,root) 755 to 700, so even though the target directory > had the proper user (qemu,qemu), qemu was denied access to the directory > due to its parent's permissions/ownership. When I set the parent > directory back to 755, save and restore both work. > > However, the current code still has a problem - if you try to save > to/from a directory that the qemu user doesn't have permission for (and > presumably if there's any other error in the child that causes it to > skip the sendmsg), rather than returning an error virFileOpenAs just > hangs on recvmsg waiting for the fd info to come over the pipe, while > the child process sits around as a zombie because nobody has reaped its > exit status. Yep, makes sense. I'm double checking whether I reliably closed the write end of the socket in all paths, and it may boil down to changing the child to _always_ sendmsg even if there is no fd to send. I'm still thinking about it. -- Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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