Re: [PATCH 4/6] lguest don't signal like crazy, use LHREQ_BREAK command

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Tue Jun 05 2007 - 11:35:29 EST


On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 01:00:06AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> We currently use a "waker" process: a child of the launcher which
> selects() on the incoming file descriptors. It sends a SIGUSR1 to the
> launcher whenever select() returns to kick the launcher out of the
> kernel.

If I break out of lguest with three ctrl-Cs, this leaves one of the
lguest processes running with /dev/lguest held open.

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