[Libvir] take 2 [Re: write(2) may write less than the total requested

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Wed Feb 20 17:13:00 UTC 2008


Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 16:42 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
>> If I do as you suggest and move the safewrite definition into util.h,
>> and make it static inline, then both problems go away.
>
> 	Make sure to try and build this with gcc-4.3.0 - remember that we
> un-inlined xstrtol() because of:
>
>   internal.h:272: error: inlining failed in call to 'xstrtol_i': call is unlikely and code size would grow
>
> 	Again, the option is to stop using -Winline, but it's probably about
> time we figured out some proper way of sharing code between libvirt.so
> and virsh etc. without adding it to the ABI.
>
> 	How about a libvirtutil libtool convenience (i.e. static) library?

This does sound like a better idea.
I'll prepare a patch to does that,
and probably move at least these into it, too:

        __virStrToLong_i;
        __virStrToLong_ull;




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