Re: [Libvir] [PATCH] Don't throw away errors in virConnectOpen (at least not so often)

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 03:04:32PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Error messages, I like them.  I don't like them to be thrown away.
> 
> A nice feature of virterror is that it'll throw away errors under the 
> following conditions:
> (1) You are in virConnectOpen, and
> (2) You pass a non-NULL virConnectPtr to __virRaiseError.
> 
> libvirt has a lot of errors which meet those conditions - the attached 
> patch fixes the ones I could find.
> 
> It also fixes qemuOpenConnection so that it doesn't try to open a Unix 
> socket with random stack data.
> 
> It also adds error messages in some useful places where previously there 
> was an error, but no message.

  In general that looks okay, but instead of passing NULL as the first
argument can't we do a selection in __virRaiseError instead based on the
type of error and just avoid virConnectOpen errors which are not related to
unavailability of the virtualization ?

Daniel

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