Re: [Libvir] PATCH: Prevent zombie ssh tunnels

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:35:46AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >    - the ssh process dies
> >    - libvirt based application takes some time to notice it
> >    - the OS span a new process with the same PID after a PID rollabck
> 
> Can not happen as long as libvirt hasn't asked for the exist status via
> waitpid() because the pid is still in use by the zombie ssh process.

  Hum, which is precisely why we need the patch. Still I would feel a bit
better if we could check that priv->pid is a child of the current process
something like (getppid(priv->pid) == getpid()) test before any kill would
do this easilly I think.

Daniel

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