[Libguestfs] [PATCH 2/3] Call sync after guestfsd exits

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Aug 17 12:34:35 UTC 2010


On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 01:29:05PM +0100, Matthew Booth wrote:
> On 17/08/10 12:49, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 05:20:12PM +0100, Matthew Booth wrote:
> >>  sync
> >>  sleep 1
> >>  sync
> >
> >Definitely can't have a sleep here.  What's wrong with a single
> >'sync'?  It is documented that it doesn't return until all outstanding
> >writes have been committed to disk.
> 
> I was actually just keeping the code that was already there. I did
> think it was a bit odd.
> 
> I can remove this.

Oh I see.  This is for the virt-rescue case, so it should do
into the else branch.

Rich.

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