Re: [Libvir] PATCH: Fix libvirtd to not shutdown at startup

Changes to the daemon to make it called qemudShutdown() broke the network driver when run in --daemon mode. This is because the main daemon forks into the background, and the original PID then exits destroying any active networks & removing the iptables rules.

Index: qemud/qemud.c =================================================================== RCS file: /data/cvs/libvirt/qemud/qemud.c,v retrieving revision 1.89 diff -u -r1.89 qemud.c --- qemud/qemud.c 3 Mar 2008 18:10:19 -0000 1.89 +++ qemud/qemud.c 9 Mar 2008 20:56:27 -0000 @@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ case -1: return -1; default: - return nextpid; + _exit(0); } cleanup: @@ -418,8 +418,7 @@ status != 0) { return -1; } - - return pid; + _exit(0); } } } @@ -2116,16 +2115,12 @@ goto error1; if (godaemon) { - int pid; openlog("libvirtd", 0, 0); - pid = qemudGoDaemon(); - if (pid < 0) { + if (qemudGoDaemon() < 0) { qemudLog(QEMUD_ERR, _("Failed to fork as daemon: %s"), strerror(errno)); goto error1; } - if (pid > 0) - goto out; /* Choose the name of the PID file. */ if (!pid_file) { @@ -2172,7 +2167,6 @@ if (godaemon) closelog(); - out: ret = 0; error2: