Re: vmctl(8) pause never returns

[Pratik Vyas]

* Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda <acam...@verlet.org> [2018-02-15 06:06:50 -0600]:

Synopsis:      vmctl(8) pause never returns
Category:      amd64
Environment:

       System      : OpenBSD 6.2
       Details     : OpenBSD 6.2-current (GENERIC.MP) #5: Mon Feb 12
21:05:57 MST 2018

dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP

       Architecture: OpenBSD.amd64
       Machine     : amd64

Description:

       vmctl when called with numeric id of non existant vm stops
       indefinitely, but non when called with unknown name

How-To-Repeat:

       # vmd -dv
       doas vmd -dv
startup
failed to open /etc/vm.conf: No such file or directory

       [in another term]
       $ doas vmctl pause unknown; echo $?
vmctl: pause vm command failed: No such file or directory
0
       $ doas vmctl pause 1; echo $?
       [command is stuck here forever]

Fix:

       unknown

Hi Abel,

Thanks for the report.

I can reproduce this and see why it fails. Will send a diff to fix it today.

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Pratik