[Libguestfs] [PATCH 2/3] Allow connecting to an externally spawned QEMU + appliance

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 05:36:14PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 08:22:30AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 12:26:00PM -0400, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > 
> > > @@ -1905,6 +1996,11 @@ guestfs__kill_subprocess (guestfs_h *g)
> > >      return -1;
> > >    }
> > >  
> > > +  if (strcmp(g->method, GUESTFS_LAUNCH_METHOD_SPAWN) != 0) {
> > > +    error (g, _("cannot kill subprocess with launch method '%s'"), g->method);
> > > +    return -1;
> > > +  }
> > > +
> 
> I'm thinking about removing this error, and just make it silently
> return 0. If you change the attach method in guestfish or by setting
> $GUESTFS_LAUNCH_METHOD before running an app, they'll all get an
> error if they call kill_subprocess(). I think this isn't nice
> because setting of $GUESTFS_LAUNCH_METHOD was supposed to be 
> transparent to them. Hence probably best to just return 0.

So it would silently not kill anything.

This is OK, but it should be documented in the POD snippet
for kill_subprocess I think.

Rich.

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