24 Mar
2010
24 Mar
'10
1:33 p.m.
On 03/24/2010 02:32 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
You don't get a directory filled with a zillion socket files pointing at dead guests. Agree that's a poor return on investment.
Deleting it on atexit combined with flushing the whole directory at startup is a pretty reasonable solution to this (which is ultimately how the entirety of /var/run behaves).
If you're really paranoid, you can fork() a helper with a shared pipe to implement unlink on close.
My paranoia comes nowhere near to my dislike of forked helpers. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function