[lxc-devel] [PATCH] lxc-wait: Add timeout option

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2012-07-09 19:28, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Jan Kiszka (jan.kiszka at siemens.com):
>> Allow to specify a timeout for waiting on state changes via lxc-wait.
>> Helpful for scripts that need to handle errors or excessive delays in
>> state changing procedures.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> in our lxc-api tree (https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-lxc/ubuntu/quantal/lxc/lxc-api-and-python/)
> I've added changed src/lxc/state.c:lxc_wait() to take an optional
> timeout value (0 means don't wait, -1 means wait forever), and use
> select, to implement wait with timeout.  It is only used by our
> lxc_container->wait, not by src/lxc/lxc_wait.c which in our tree
> passes in -1 to wait forever.  Ideally our patches would be combined.

No problem, I can base mine on top of yours. Did you post it already?

Jan

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