Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3] report that QEMU process was killed by a signal

[Peter Maydell]

2011/3/30 Gleb Natapov <address@hidden>:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 07:53:41PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> I'm not convinced about the utility of printing the pid, personally.
>> Most programs get along fine without printing anything when
>> they receive a terminal signal.

> Well qemu is a bit of special case. It is long running process that
> takes huge amount of memory and, as suchm it becomes a target of various
> monitoring script which, when configured incorrectly, start killing
> perfectly valid guests. In addition killing of the guest looks exactly
> like guest shutdown to management software because we call shutdow_request
> in the signal handler.

That sounds like a flaw in the communication protocol between
qemu and the management software, which would be better fixed
by having qemu communicate the reason for exit directly (ie
not just by printing to stderr), surely?

> Exactly. This should do the trick (not tested).

Looks good, and a test shows I don't get the segfault any more.

Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>

although I guess you'll want to submit it with a sensible git
commit message :-)

-- PMM