Re: [PATCH vd_agent_linux v2 4/7] vdagent: Fix restarting agent

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> 
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 08:37:02AM +0000, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > We need to pass original argument list, however argv is modified by
> 
> "the original argument list.."
> 
> > g_option_context_parse so save a copy of the array to make possible
> > to restart with the same arguments.
> 
> "to make it possible"
> 
> Did you observe issues without that?
> 

Yes and not.
I instrumented the code to see how the argument list change.
GLib strips all options, for instance passing "-o 1" main get
called with ["spice-vdagent", "-o", "1"], after the parse
argv contains ["spice-vdagent"] so next executable would be
called without options.

> Acked-by: Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  src/vdagent/vdagent.c | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/src/vdagent/vdagent.c b/src/vdagent/vdagent.c
> > index eb741bc..0916029 100644
> > --- a/src/vdagent/vdagent.c
> > +++ b/src/vdagent/vdagent.c
> > @@ -418,6 +418,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> >      GOptionContext *context;
> >      GError *error = NULL;
> >      VDAgent *agent;
> > +    char **orig_argv = g_memdup(argv, sizeof(char*) * (argc+1));
> >  
> >      context = g_option_context_new(NULL);
> >      g_option_context_add_main_entries(context, entries, NULL);
> > @@ -465,7 +466,7 @@ reconnect:
> >      if (version_mismatch) {
> >          syslog(LOG_INFO, "Version mismatch, restarting");
> >          sleep(1);
> > -        execvp(argv[0], argv);
> > +        execvp(orig_argv[0], orig_argv);
> >      }
> >  
> >      agent = vdagent_new();
> > @@ -483,6 +484,7 @@ reconnect:
> >      g_free(fx_dir);
> >      g_free(portdev);
> >      g_free(vdagentd_socket);
> > +    g_free(orig_argv);
> >  
> >      return 0;
> >  }
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