On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 12:00:19PM +0100, Florian Forster wrote: > Hi, > > thank you very much for reporting this! Sounds like a bug in the exec plugin – > it never ceases to amaze me how many issues a single plugin can have ;) > > > > > This means that any plugin that does the usual pattern of: > > > > > > > > pid = fork (); > > Note that the exec plugin is the *only* plugin that does this. All other > plugins are forbidden to fork(), popen() or create new processes in any other > way. The only plugin doing that, the exec plugin, has had enough issues over > the years for me to feel justified in that decision. ;-) > > As mentioned before, a Github issue would be appreciated so we can properly > track this problem.
I don't know if Peter is using the exec plugin or is trying to write an ordinary plugin. However the library he is using (libguestfs) certainly does fork subprocess(es). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html _______________________________________________ collectd mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd
