Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Faster response time to qemu startup errors

The below patch decreases the response time of libvirt to errors reported by Qemu upon startup by checking whether the qemu process is still alive while polling for the local socket to show up.

@@ -274,7 +274,8 @@ qemuMonitorOpenUnix(const char *monitor) if (ret == 0) break; - if (errno == ENOENT || errno == ECONNREFUSED) { + if ((errno == ENOENT || errno == ECONNREFUSED) && + virKillProcess(cpid, 0) == 0) { /* ENOENT : Socket may not have shown up yet * ECONNREFUSED : Leftover socket hasn't been removed yet */ continue;