[PATCH v8 4/5] Implement testing framework for pidns

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 07:08:48PM +0200, Ákos Uzonyi wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Aug 2020 at 01:29, Ákos Uzonyi <uzonyi.akos at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 at 22:27, Dmitry V. Levin <ldv at altlinux.org> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 04:13:05PM +0200, Ákos Uzonyi wrote:
> [...]
> > > > +static void
> > > > +create_init_process(void)
> > > > +{
> > > > +     int child_pipe[2];
> > > > +     if (pipe(child_pipe) < 0)
> > > > +             perror_msg_and_fail("pipe");
> > > > +
> > > > +     pid_t pid = fork();
> > > > +     if (pid < 0)
> > > > +             perror_msg_and_fail("fork");
> > > > +
> > > > +     if (!pid) {
> > > > +             close(child_pipe[1]);
> > > > +             _exit(read(child_pipe[0], &child_pipe[1], sizeof(int)) == 0);
> > > > +     }
> > > > +
> > > > +     close(child_pipe[0]);
> > > > +}
> > >
> > > If nothing is going to be written to child_pipe[1], then this read call is
> > > expected to return 0, followed by _exit(1).  The choice of exit code seems
> > > strange to me.
> >
> > Oh yes, this is a mistake, I should have written "!=" instead of "==".
> > I think I'll use an if, that's more readable.
> 
> Actually, we do not really care about exit code, so I think I will
> just use _exit(0), regardless of the return value of read.

Ignoring the return value of read syscall might be tricky.


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