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-rw-r--r--src/guestfs.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/guestfs.c b/src/guestfs.c
index d8c856a4..fe08cb56 100644
--- a/src/guestfs.c
+++ b/src/guestfs.c
@@ -2366,8 +2366,16 @@ accept_from_daemon (guestfs_h *g)
int sock = -1;
while (sock == -1) {
+ /* If the qemu process has died, clean up the zombie (RHBZ#579155).
+ * By partially polling in the select below we ensure that this
+ * function will be called eventually.
+ */
+ waitpid (g->pid, NULL, WNOHANG);
+
rset2 = rset;
- int r = select (max_fd+1, &rset2, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+
+ struct timeval tv = { .tv_sec = 1, .tv_usec = 0 };
+ int r = select (max_fd+1, &rset2, NULL, NULL, &tv);
if (r == -1) {
if (errno == EINTR || errno == EAGAIN)
continue;