Re: [PATCH 4/6] lguest don't signal like crazy, use LHREQ_BREAK command

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On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 10:07:46AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 10:34 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 01:00:06AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > We currently use a "waker" process: a child of the launcher which
> > > selects() on the incoming file descriptors.  It sends a SIGUSR1 to the
> > > launcher whenever select() returns to kick the launcher out of the
> > > kernel.
> > 
> > If I break out of lguest with three ctrl-Cs, this leaves one of the
> > lguest processes running with /dev/lguest held open.
> 
> This patch, or the previous version I sent?  The previous one had this
> issue, so this one takes some care to kill the waker and I haven't seen
> it since:
> 
> 				/* Make sure waker is not blocked in BREAK */
> 				u32 args[] = { LHREQ_BREAK, 0 };
> 				close(waker_fd);
> 				write(fd, args, sizeof(args));
> 				exit(2);

Probably the one you sent earlier.

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