From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> So far, the server leaves the posix shared memory object behind when terminating, requiring the user to explicitly remove it in order to start a new instance.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> --- Changes in v2: - respect use_shm_open - also clean up in ivshmem_server_start error path contrib/ivshmem-server/ivshmem-server.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/contrib/ivshmem-server/ivshmem-server.c b/contrib/ivshmem-server/ivshmem-server.c index 77f97b209c..88daee812d 100644 --- a/contrib/ivshmem-server/ivshmem-server.c +++ b/contrib/ivshmem-server/ivshmem-server.c @@ -353,6 +353,9 @@ ivshmem_server_start(IvshmemServer *server) err_close_sock: close(sock_fd); err_close_shm: + if (server->use_shm_open) { + shm_unlink(server->shm_path); + } close(shm_fd); return -1; } @@ -370,6 +373,9 @@ ivshmem_server_close(IvshmemServer *server) } unlink(server->unix_sock_path); + if (server->use_shm_open) { + shm_unlink(server->shm_path); + } close(server->sock_fd); close(server->shm_fd); server->sock_fd = -1; -- 2.16.4