Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v2 1/2] util: Introduce virPidFileForceCleanupPath

This function is used to cleanup a pidfile doing whatever it takes, even killing the owning process. Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan(a)redhat.com&gt; --- v2: - Don't use "/proc", but simply just try to acquire the pidfile. - https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-October/msg00320.html src/libvirt_private.syms | 1 + src/util/virpidfile.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ src/util/virpidfile.h | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 45 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/libvirt_private.syms b/src/libvirt_private.syms index d6265ac..30d100d 100644 --- a/src/libvirt_private.syms +++ b/src/libvirt_private.syms @@ -1810,6 +1810,7 @@ virPidFileBuildPath; virPidFileConstructPath; virPidFileDelete; virPidFileDeletePath; +virPidFileForceCleanupPath; virPidFileRead; virPidFileReadIfAlive; virPidFileReadPath; diff --git a/src/util/virpidfile.c b/src/util/virpidfile.c index a3b8846..a64a1cf 100644 --- a/src/util/virpidfile.c +++ b/src/util/virpidfile.c @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ #include "c-ctype.h" #include "areadlink.h" #include "virstring.h" +#include "virprocess.h" #define VIR_FROM_THIS VIR_FROM_NONE @@ -567,3 +568,44 @@ virPidFileConstructPath(bool privileged, VIR_FREE(rundir); return ret; } + + +/** + * virPidFileForceCleanupPath: + * + * Check if the pidfile is left around and clean it up whatever it + * takes. This doesn't raise an error. This function must not be + * called multiple times with the same path, be it in threads or + * processes. + * + * Returns 0 if the pidfile was successfully cleaned up, -1 otherwise.

+ */ +int +virPidFileForceCleanupPath(const char *path)