2011/7/12 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>:
When using virCommandRunAsync and saving the pid for later, it is useful to be able to reap that pid in the same way that it would have been auto-reaped by virCommand if we had passed NULL for the pid argument in the first place.
* src/util/command.c (virPidWait, virPidAbort): New functions, created from... (virCommandWait, virCommandAbort): ...bodies of these. (includes): Drop duplicate <stdlib.h>. Ensure that our pid_t assumptions hold. (virCommandRunAsync): Improve documentation. * src/util/command.h (virPidWait, virPidAbort): New prototypes. * src/libvirt_private.syms: Export them. * docs/internals/command.html.in: Document them. --- docs/internals/command.html.in | 17 +++++ src/libvirt_private.syms | 2 + src/util/command.c | 140 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ src/util/command.h | 28 ++++++++ 4 files changed, 146 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
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