Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH libnbd 1/2] lib: Avoid killing subprocess twice.

On 9/26/19 11:40 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >If the user calls nbd_kill_subprocess, we shouldn't kill the process >again when we close the handle (since the process has likely gone and >we might be killing a different process). >--- > lib/handle.c | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > >diff --git a/lib/handle.c b/lib/handle.c >index 2af25fe..5ad818e 100644 >--- a/lib/handle.c >+++ b/lib/handle.c >@@ -315,6 +315,8 @@ nbd_unlocked_kill_subprocess (struct nbd_handle *h, int signum) > return -1; > } >+ h->pid = -1; >+ Ouch - this means we completely forget about the child process, even if signum == SIGHUP and was meant merely to get the server to reload state rather than to kill it (we've talked about making nbdkit have a way to reload configuration); and prevents a client from using the API a second time to send a more severe signal like SIGKILL if the first didn't have the desired effect. You are right, however, that once this is called, we have to be more careful that any future interaction with the pid does not race with a scenario where our child has gone away, and some other process come into its place. Is it viable to check /proc to see if the child process is the same one that we spawned, for example, /proc/CHILD/status looking to see if PPid: still points to us?