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Daniel P. Berrange e1da464d88 Add some APIs which use locking for crashsafe pidfile handling
In daemons using pidfiles to protect against concurrent
execution there is a possibility that a crash may leave a stale
pidfile on disk, which then prevents later restart of the daemon.

To avoid this problem, introduce a pair of APIs which make
use of virFileLock to ensure crash-safe & race condition-safe
pidfile acquisition & releae

* src/libvirt_private.syms, src/util/virpidfile.c,
  src/util/virpidfile.h: Add virPidFileAcquire and virPidFileRelease
2011-08-12 20:37:00 +01:00
.gnulib@4470580881 build: fix regression in large file support 2011-08-08 09:59:52 -06:00
daemon daemon: Unlink unix socket paths on shutdown 2011-08-04 16:54:58 +08:00
docs Improve tokenizing of linkable terms 2011-08-12 07:35:19 -06:00
examples maint: add missing copyright notices 2011-07-28 15:01:17 -06:00
gnulib freebsd: Fix build problem due to picking up the wrong libvirt.h 2011-07-29 07:35:54 -06:00
include storage: Directory shouldn't be listed as type 'file' 2011-08-11 13:34:26 -06:00
m4 tests: Lower stack usage below 4096 bytes 2011-04-30 19:59:52 +02:00
po Add some APIs which use locking for crashsafe pidfile handling 2011-08-12 20:37:00 +01:00
python python: avoid unlikely sign extension bug 2011-08-02 11:57:07 -06:00
src Add some APIs which use locking for crashsafe pidfile handling 2011-08-12 20:37:00 +01:00
tests virsh: don't reject undefine on active domain 2011-08-12 07:39:25 -06:00
tools virsh: fix dead store 2011-08-12 12:27:06 -06:00
.dir-locals.el maint: make spacing in .sh files easier 2011-03-14 21:57:42 -06:00
.gitignore freebsd: Fix build problem due to picking up the wrong libvirt.h 2011-07-29 07:35:54 -06:00
.gitmodules make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
.mailmap virsh: Avoid using magic numbers for logging 2011-07-14 07:03:40 -06:00
AUTHORS driver.h: Fix two driver documentation mistakes 2011-07-25 13:50:32 +08:00
COPYING.LIB remove all trailing blank lines 2009-07-16 15:06:42 +02:00
ChangeLog-old generate ChangeLog from git logs into distribution tarball 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
HACKING build: rename files.h to virfile.h 2011-07-21 10:34:51 -06:00
Makefile.am maint: add missing copyright notices 2011-07-28 15:01:17 -06:00
Makefile.nonreentrant Ban use of all inet_* functions 2010-10-22 11:59:23 +01:00
README Correct typos in the documentation (Atsushi SAKAI) 2008-01-24 10:15:13 +00:00
README-hacking maint: relax git minimum version 2010-02-24 14:29:27 -05:00
TODO Update todo list file to point at bugzilla/website 2010-10-13 16:45:26 +01:00
autobuild.sh Remove the Open Nebula driver 2011-03-28 14:09:11 +01:00
autogen.sh build: avoid problems with autogen.sh runs from tarball 2011-02-12 06:28:28 -07:00
bootstrap build: update to latest gnulib 2011-06-23 10:52:08 -06:00
bootstrap.conf freebsd: Fix build problem due to picking up the wrong libvirt.h 2011-07-29 07:35:54 -06:00
cfg.mk bandwidth: Add parsing and free functions 2011-07-25 13:49:33 +08:00
configure.ac Fix detection of GnuTLS 1.x.y 2011-08-03 19:22:29 +02:00
libvirt.pc.in * libvirt.pc.in: applied patch from Daniel Berrange to fix --cflags 2006-03-24 13:18:12 +00:00
libvirt.spec.in Release of libvirt-0.9.4 2011-08-03 11:02:42 +08:00
mingw32-libvirt.spec.in conf: put virtPortProfile struct / functions in a common location 2011-07-21 14:46:33 -04:00

README

         LibVirt : simple API for virtualization

  Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.

Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>