[libvirt] [PATCH] util: Fix virStorageBackendIQNFound() to work on FreeBSD

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Wed Jul 25 11:17:08 UTC 2018


On 07/25/2018 11:30 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> Despite being standardized in POSIX.1-2008, the 'm'
> sscanf() modifier is currently not available on FreeBSD.
> 
> Reimplement parsing without sscanf() to work around the
> issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/util/viriscsi.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Le sigh. So apparently we can't take 10 years old standard for granted
and have to use this ugly (as in not obvious) style of parsing. One
possibility is to go to BSD guys and ask them to comply with POSIX, but
that is very likely to fail. So as much as I hate to write this,

ACK

Michal




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