[fedora-virt] Re: virt-inspector calling guestfs_umount_all() before launch()?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 05:58:30PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:50:00AM -0500, Charles Duffy wrote:
> > Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >> It's completely untested, and might even segfault the Perl bindings
> >> because of BZ #501892 (which really needs to be fixed).
> 
> I'm still fixing this one ...

This ridiculously large patch fixes 501892 and a number of other bugs
in the language bindings, and also adds detailed regression tests so
hopefully we won't end up adding any bugs like this back in future:

http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=babc0846cc911b01a58a7385d30ad25889b7175a

> > One other issue with that patch is that it passes an empty string rather  
> > than no secondary parameter at all in place of the null:
> >
> >    /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -snapshot '' -drive file=da.qcow2 [...]
> 
> I think that's the same bug in the Perl bindings actually.  The
> C code looks correct.

The Perl binding was turning undef into '', incorrectly of
course.  This is fixed by the above patch.

Rich.

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