This is a very historic artefact. Back in the old days of 830ba76c3e when we had macros to add arguments onto qemu command line (!) we thought it was a good idea to let qemu write out the PID file. So we passed -pidfile $stateDir/$domName onto the command line. Thus, in order for tests to work we needed stable stateDir in the qemu driver. Unfortunately, after 16efa11aa696 where stateDir is mkdtemp()-d, this approach lead to a leak of temp dir. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com&gt; --- tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c index d2d267fce..00b0e25cd 100644 --- a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c +++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c @@ -581,9 +581,6 @@ mymain(void) if (VIR_STRDUP_QUIET(driver.config->chardevTLSx509certdir, "/etc/pki/libvirt-chardev") < 0) return EXIT_FAILURE; - VIR_FREE(driver.config->stateDir); - if (VIR_STRDUP_QUIET(driver.config->stateDir, "/nowhere") < 0) - return EXIT_FAILURE; VIR_FREE(driver.config->hugetlbfs); if (VIR_ALLOC_N(driver.config->hugetlbfs, 2) < 0) return EXIT_FAILURE; -- 2.11.0