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[1/8] qemu-nbd: improve error message for dup2 error

Message ID 20230906093210.339585-2-den@openvz.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series qemu-nbd: Restore "qemu-nbd -v --fork" output | expand

Commit Message

Denis V. Lunev Sept. 6, 2023, 9:32 a.m. UTC
This error is happened when we are not able to close the pipe to the
parent (to trace errors in the child process) and assign stderr to
/dev/null as required by the daemonizing convention.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Suggested-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
CC: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
CC: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
---
 qemu-nbd.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Eric Blake Sept. 7, 2023, 8:46 p.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 11:32:03AM +0200, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> This error is happened when we are not able to close the pipe to the

s/is happened when/happens if/

> parent (to trace errors in the child process) and assign stderr to
> /dev/null as required by the daemonizing convention.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
> Suggested-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> CC: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> CC: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
> ---
>  qemu-nbd.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/qemu-nbd.c b/qemu-nbd.c
> index aaccaa3318..4575e4291e 100644
> --- a/qemu-nbd.c
> +++ b/qemu-nbd.c
> @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ static void *nbd_client_thread(void *arg)
>      } else {
>          /* Close stderr so that the qemu-nbd process exits.  */
>          if (dup2(STDOUT_FILENO, STDERR_FILENO) < 0) {
> -            error_report("Could not set stderr to /dev/null: %s",
> +            error_report("Could not release pipe to parent: %s",
>                           strerror(errno));
>              exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
>          }
> @@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>  
>      if (fork_process) {
>          if (dup2(STDOUT_FILENO, STDERR_FILENO) < 0) {
> -            error_report("Could not set stderr to /dev/null: %s",
> +            error_report("Could not release pipe to parent: %s",
>                           strerror(errno));
>              exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
>          }
> -- 
> 2.34.1
>

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/qemu-nbd.c b/qemu-nbd.c
index aaccaa3318..4575e4291e 100644
--- a/qemu-nbd.c
+++ b/qemu-nbd.c
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@  static void *nbd_client_thread(void *arg)
     } else {
         /* Close stderr so that the qemu-nbd process exits.  */
         if (dup2(STDOUT_FILENO, STDERR_FILENO) < 0) {
-            error_report("Could not set stderr to /dev/null: %s",
+            error_report("Could not release pipe to parent: %s",
                          strerror(errno));
             exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
         }
@@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@  int main(int argc, char **argv)
 
     if (fork_process) {
         if (dup2(STDOUT_FILENO, STDERR_FILENO) < 0) {
-            error_report("Could not set stderr to /dev/null: %s",
+            error_report("Could not release pipe to parent: %s",
                          strerror(errno));
             exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
         }