On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 12:50:15PM -0300, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 10:47:06 -0500
> Michael Roth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 06:35:58PM -0300, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > > Has the side effect of changing the default directory used to
> > > save the freeze status file from /tmp to ${prefix}/var/run.
> > >
> > > This is a beneficial change for two reasons:
> > >
> > > 1. FHS states that programs must not assume that files in /tmp will
> > > still exist between invocations of the program. This defeats
> > > the purpose of the freeze status file
> > >
> > > 2. FHS dictates that /var/run must be cleaned on boot, this
> > > ensures that a stale freeze status file will be removed on boot
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <[email protected]>
> > > ---
> > > qemu-ga.c | 4 ++--
> > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/qemu-ga.c b/qemu-ga.c
> > > index b747470..daeaea5 100644
> > > --- a/qemu-ga.c
> > > +++ b/qemu-ga.c
> > > @@ -40,8 +40,8 @@
> > > #else
> > > #define QGA_VIRTIO_PATH_DEFAULT "\\\\.\\Global\\org.qemu.guest_agent.0"
> > > #endif
> > > -#define QGA_PIDFILE_DEFAULT "/var/run/qemu-ga.pid"
> > > -#define QGA_STATEDIR_DEFAULT "/tmp"
> > > +#define QGA_STATEDIR_DEFAULT CONFIG_QEMU_LOCALSTATEDIR "/run"
> > > +#define QGA_PIDFILE_DEFAULT QGA_STATEDIR_DEFAULT "/qemu-ga.pid"
> >
> > Just to confirm, in configure we have:
> >
> > echo "qemu_localstatedir=$local_statedir" >> $config_host_mak
> >
> > Is there some magic that generates a CONFIG_QEMU_LOCALSTATEDIR with the
> > same value? If so:
>
> Yes, that's done by scripts/create_config
>
> > Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <[email protected]>
>
> Btw, is this going through your tree?
Yup, was planning on sending a pull tomorrow after some basic testing.
Same for the standalone pidfile fix-up.
>
> >
> > > #define QGA_SENTINEL_BYTE 0xFF
> > >
> > > struct GAState {
> > > --
> > > 1.7.12.315.g682ce8b
> > >
> >
>
