The 'commandhelper' checks effectively whether the parent process is
still around to report whether it was daemonized or not.
This creates a unlikely race condition in cases when we do actually
daemonize the process as the intermediate process used for the
daemonization might not have terminated yet which would report wrong
result leading to test failure.
For now there's just 'test4' which actually daemonizes the process.
Add an argument '--check-daemonize' which asks for retries of the
daemonization check in cases where we expect that the commandhelper is
going to be daemonized and use it in 'test4' to make the test more
reliable.
I've observed the test failure sporadically when my box is under load
e.g. while building two trees at once.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Unfortunately, advisory record locking lose the lock if any fd refering
to the file is closed. There doesn't seem to be a way to preserve the
lock atomically. We could eventually retake the lock if low pidfilefd
is required.
This fixes processes being leaked, as they are not killed in
virPidFileForceCleanupPath() if the lock can be taken. Here also, we may
consider this is not good enough, as a process may leak by simply
closing the pidfilefd.
Fixes commit d146105f1e ("virCommand:
Actually acquire pidfile instead of just writing it")
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Our virCommand module allows us to set a pidfile for commands we
want to spawn. The caller constructs the string of pidfile path
and then uses virCommandSetPidFile() to tell the module to write
the pidfile once the command is ran. This usually works, but has
two flaws:
1) the child process does not hold the pidfile open & locked.
Therefore, the caller (or anybody else) can't use our fancy
virPidFileForceCleanupPath() function to kill the command
afterwards. Also, for everybody else on the system it's
needlessly harder to check if the pid from the pidfile is still
alive or not.
2) if the caller ever makes a mistake and passes the same pidfile
path for two different commands, the start of the second command
will overwrite the pidfile even though the first command might
still be running.
NOTE that this temporarily renders some command spawning
unusable, specifically those code patterns where both
virCommandSetPidFile() is used together with instructing spawned
command to acquire pidfile itself. Fortunately, there is only one
occurrence of such pattern and it is in
qemuProcessStartManagedPRDaemon(). This is fixed in next commit.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
This introduces a new set of APIs in src/util/command.h
to use for invoking commands. This is intended to replace
all current usage of virRun and virExec variants, with a
more flexible and less error prone API.
* src/util/command.c: New file.
* src/util/command.h: New header.
* src/Makefile.am (UTIL_SOURCES): Build it.
* src/libvirt_private.syms: Export symbols internally.
* tests/commandtest.c: New test.
* tests/Makefile.am (check_PROGRAMS): Run it.
* tests/commandhelper.c: Auxiliary program.
* tests/commanddata/test2.log - test15.log: New expected outputs.
* cfg.mk (useless_free_options): Add virCommandFree.
(msg_gen_function): Add virCommandError.
* po/POTFILES.in: New translation.
* .x-sc_avoid_write: Add exemption.
* tests/.gitignore: Ignore new built file.
