[libvirt] [PATCH] Check that virsh -d argument is numeric

[Chris Lalancette]

On 08/02/10 - 09:22:26PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:19:54PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> > On 08/02/2010 09:30 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > >   Having been bitten one more time by the use of -d to pass the
> > > hypervisor URI instead of -c (confusion coming from CVS using
> > > -d to specify the root), I suggest to drop atoi and use the
> > > function with checking and error out with proper explanation instead
> > > of silently failing !
> > 
> > Hear hear - atoi() is inherently stupid.  There's a 'make syntax-check'
> > that we could turn on to prohibit all use of atoi(), but I don't know if
> > the code base is ready for that, so I'll save it for another patch on
> > another day.
> 
>   let's try to clean this up after 0.8.3

Yeah, agreed.  There aren't a huge number of uses of atoi() in the codebase,
but there are enough to require a bit of churn.  Best left until after the
release.

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Chris Lalancette