[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Try multiple times to open unix monitor socket

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Thu Jul 16 16:58:50 UTC 2009


Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:40:42AM +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 06:22:42PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>>> Unlike the pty monitor (which we know exists since we scrape its path from
>>> stdout), we have no way of knowing that the unix monitor socket should exist/
>>> be initialized. As a result, some of my KVM guests randomly fail to start on
>>> F10 host.
>>>
>>> Try to open the unix socket in a 3 second timeout loop. Ignore EACCES (path
>>> does not exist if a first time run) and ECONNREFUSED (leftover socket from
>>> a previous run hasn't been removed yet). Fixes things for me.
>>   It's always a bit annoying to end up with heuristics like this
>> but if we don't have any other way, okay, ACK
> 
> I don't like it much either, but this is no worse than what we had todo
> to find the /dev/pts/XXX path where we waited ina  loop for 3 seconds.
> ACK to this patch
> 

Thanks, pushed now.

- Cole




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