[pve-devel] [PATCH common] tools: more general run_fork_with_timeout + run_fork

[Wolfgang Bumiller]

---
We have run_fork_with_timeout in order to run a piece of code
in a fork while being able to return values from it and pass
along exceptions, but we still had no way of doing this without
a timeout...

 src/PVE/Tools.pm | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/PVE/Tools.pm b/src/PVE/Tools.pm
index bd99914..2525e55 100644
--- a/src/PVE/Tools.pm
+++ b/src/PVE/Tools.pm
@@ -945,7 +945,11 @@ sub run_fork_with_timeout {
 	$error = $child_res->{error};
     };
     eval {
-	run_with_timeout($timeout, $readvalues);
+	if (defined($timeout)) {
+	    run_with_timeout($timeout, $readvalues);
+	} else {
+	    $readvalues->();
+	}
     };
     warn $@ if $@;
     $pipe_out->close();
@@ -959,6 +963,11 @@ sub run_fork_with_timeout {
     return $res;
 }
 
+sub run_fork {
+    my ($code) = @_;
+    return run_fork_with_timeout(undef, $code);
+}
+
 # NOTE: NFS syscall can't be interrupted, so alarm does
 # not work to provide timeouts.
 # from 'man nfs': "Only SIGKILL can interrupt a pending NFS operation"
-- 
2.11.0