[Libvir] PATCH: 5/10: public auth callback API

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Dec 4 12:57:39 UTC 2007


Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>  virConnectPtr           virConnectOpenAuth      (const char *name,
>  						 virConnectAuthPtr auth,
>  						 int flags);

I'm a fan of callers passing in the size of the structure (as they see 
it).  Allows the structure to be expanded in future, and if done right 
can allow both forwards and backwards compatibility.

cf: http://www.libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virDomainInterfaceStats

Rich.

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