Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 10/21] Don't let parent of daemon exit until basic initialization is done

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 03:22:38PM +0100, Guido G?nther wrote: > Hi Daniel, > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 02:05:39PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > The daemonizing code lets the parent exit almost immediately. This > > means that it may think it has successfully started even when > > important failures occur like not being able to acquire the PID > > file. It also means network sockets are not yet open. > With this patch applied to 0.7.2 I'm seeing: > > # libvirtd -d > 15:20:22.457: error : main:2971 : Failed to fork as daemon: Success > > about every second time I start the daemon. Any idea where this comes > from? No, but that sounds bad to me - something I'm not expecting must be going on here. Definitely sounds like a race condition.