Bug 502224 - Eliminate race in Unix socket creation / use 'server' option
Summary: Eliminate race in Unix socket creation / use 'server' option
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Virtualization Tools
Classification: Community
Component: libguestfs
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Richard W.M. Jones
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Reported: 2009-05-22 16:09 UTC by Richard W.M. Jones
Modified: 2010-03-16 17:20 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-09-22 14:28:13 UTC
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2009-05-22 16:09:32 UTC 
Eliminate this race:

http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blob;f=src/guestfs.c;h=fb214c535de1a63b2042d22912d6cf2b53664d3d;hb=HEAD#l956

by using "server" on the Unix socket.  See qemu
function qemu_chr_open_tcp [sic] for details.
Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2009-05-25 15:01:32 UTC 
Note the "nowait" flag too

Moving upstream
Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2009-09-22 14:28:13 UTC 
This is long fixed.
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