Re: [libvirt] PATCH: 11/25: Public APIs for incrementing refcount

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones redhat com>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:18:40AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Unfortunately this isn't sufficient to make use of the dom/net
> fields practical. If we hold onto a reference when setting the
> error object, then we have a possible indefinite memory leak, 
> unless the app calling libvirt always runs  virResetLastError()
> after every API call. 

I don't think it really matters.  The application can keep a handle on
the original dom/net objects passed into the call, if it needs them
for error reporting.

Rich.

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