From 6ed5ad8d530dada609676a397c09700308877b81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:56:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] fish: docs: note how to clean up the remote process properly. Killing it is always a bad idea, because the qemu subprocess will be left hanging around. The best thing is to send the exit command. Cherry picked from commit 11be7d8eee16e6249ed2868b5bd552f29508ec02 and modified. --- fish/guestfish.pod | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fish/guestfish.pod b/fish/guestfish.pod index c09dffc..21b264a 100644 --- a/fish/guestfish.pod +++ b/fish/guestfish.pod @@ -996,14 +996,15 @@ and cleans up guestfish when the script exits: exit 1 fi - kill_guestfish () + cleanup_guestfish () { - kill $GUESTFISH_PID >/dev/null 2>&1 ||: + guestfish --remote -- exit >/dev/null 2>&1 ||: } - trap kill_guestfish EXIT + trap cleanup_guestfish EXIT ERR - guestfish --remote run - # etc. + guestfish --remote -- run + + # ... =head2 REMOTE CONTROL RUN COMMAND HANGING -- 1.8.3.1