Laszlo Ersek 93dd748b78 keep the PID file locked for the lifetime of the process ...

The lockf() call in qemu_create_pidfile() aims at ensuring mutual
exclusion. We shouldn't close the pidfile on success (as introduced by
commit 1bbd1592), because that drops the lock as well [1]:

    "File locks shall be released on first close by the locking process
    of any file descriptor for the file."

Coverity may complain again about the leaked file descriptor; let's
worry about that later.

v1->v2:
- add reference to 1bbd1592
- explain the intentional fd leak in the source

[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lockf.html

Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

2012-02-01 16:23:57 -06:00

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