Mark a virCommand's inpipe (write-end of pipe) as non-blocking so that it
will never block when we were to try to write too many bytes to it while
it doesn't have the capacity to hold them.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb(a)linux.ibm.com>
---
src/util/vircommand.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/util/vircommand.c b/src/util/vircommand.c
index 3ac51c77a8..b10bba5b32 100644
--- a/src/util/vircommand.c
+++ b/src/util/vircommand.c
@@ -2535,6 +2535,13 @@ virCommandRunAsync(virCommandPtr cmd, pid_t *pid)
}
cmd->infd = infd[0];
cmd->inpipe = infd[1];
+ if (fcntl(cmd->inpipe, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK) < 0) {
+ virReportSystemError(errno, "%s",
+ _("fcntl failed to set O_NONBLOCK"));
+ cmd->has_error = -1;
+ ret = -1;
+ goto cleanup;
+ }
} else if ((cmd->inbuf && cmd->infd == -1) ||
(cmd->outbuf && cmd->outfdptr != &cmd->outfd) ||
(cmd->errbuf && cmd->errfdptr != &cmd->errfd)) {
--
2.20.1