[libvirt] [PATCH 3/5] virstring: Introduce virVasprintfNOOM and make virVasprintf report OOM

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Apr 3 09:50:15 UTC 2013


On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 02:19:35PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/02/2013 08:22 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> > ---
> >  src/libvirt_private.syms |  1 +
> >  src/qemu/qemu_domain.c   |  4 +---
> >  src/util/viraudit.c      |  2 +-
> >  src/util/vircommand.c    |  4 ++--
> >  src/util/virerror.c      |  2 +-
> >  src/util/virlog.c        |  2 +-
> >  src/util/virstring.c     | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
> >  src/util/virstring.h     |  3 +++
> >  8 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/src/libvirt_private.syms b/src/libvirt_private.syms
> > index 5060b87..8d1abe7 100644
> > --- a/src/libvirt_private.syms
> > +++ b/src/libvirt_private.syms
> > @@ -1742,6 +1742,7 @@ virStrToLong_ul;
> >  virStrToLong_ull;
> >  virTrimSpaces;
> >  virVasprintf;
> > +virVasprintfNOOM;
> 
> Bike-shedding: Maybe virVasprintfQuiet works better?  I'm a bit worried
> that the NOOM suffix will cause more questions than it resolves about
> what it is really doing, which is being silent on OOM conditions.

I agree, the name suggests that it isn't doing any error checking
at all, which is obviously not the case.

Daniel
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