[Libguestfs] [PATCH WIP] Can't generate argv variant

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:55:33PM +0200, Maros Zatko wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> lately I've been getting familiar with library and working on slight
> re-layering of the library. It's about having locking layer in public API and
> tracing one layer below that (let's call it __t_ layer. I'm not very good at
> making up names, so this is temporary:) ). Then making sure that all generated
> public stuff call __t_ layer and all other internal stuff doesn't use public
> API since it would deadlock otherwise.
> 
> Now the problem - an example:
> Generator creates guestfs_copy_device_to_device_argv, but not
> guestfs_copy_device_to_device_argv version.

Is there a typo in this sentence?

The generator makes:

 - guestfs_copy_device_to_device       in src/actions-variants.c
 - guestfs_copy_device_to_device_va    in src/actions-variants.c
 - guestfs_copy_device_to_device_argv  in src/actions-1.c

guestfs_copy_device_to_device
  --> calls guestfs_copy_device_to_device_argv
guestfs_copy_device_to_device_va
  --> calls guestfs_copy_device_to_device_argv

The "real" public API here is guestfs_copy_device_to_device_argv, and
I think that's where the locking should go.

If there is some code in libguestfs which recursively calls
guestfs_copy_device_to_device now (there happens not to be), I think
it should be changed to call _guestfs_unlocked_copy_device_to_device,
or whatever we're calling the internal unlocked version.

> Other issue:
> generated declaration for guestfs__internal_test in guestfs-internal-actions.h
> looks like this:
> 
> extern int guestfs__internal_test (guestfs_h *g, const char *str,
>   const char *optstr, char *const *strlist, int b, int integer,
>   int64_t integer64, const char *filein, const char *fileout,
>   const char *bufferin, size_t bufferin_size, ...);

In my copy it is declared as:

extern int guestfs__internal_test (guestfs_h *g, const char *str, const char *optstr, char *const *strlist, int b, int integer, int64_t integer64, const char *filein, const char *fileout, const char *bufferin, size_t bufferin_size, const struct guestfs_internal_test_argv *optargs);

so that would be correct I think.

Rich.

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