[libvirt] [PATCH] virsh edit command

[Daniel Veillard]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:27:42PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> but with much more sanity checking.  The editor is $EDITOR or vi, and
> it does the right thing if the user doesn't modify the file, or if
> another user edits the configuration at the same time.
[...]
> +    /* Compare original XML with edited.  Has it changed at all? */
> +    if (STREQ (doc, doc_edited)) {
> +        vshPrint(ctl, _("Domain %s XML configuration not changed.\n"),
> +                 virDomainGetName (dom));
> +        ret = TRUE;
> +        goto cleanup;
> +    }

  Hum, I would check for basic well-formedness here because it just
too easy to break the XML file while editing with a text editor
  http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-parser.html#xmlReadMemory
if the call fails to build a parsed document suggest to reedit from
scratch, based on the current buffer or just abort the edit.

  Numerous newbies will get trapped in vi, get lost and looking for
a safe exit path :-)

Daniel

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