[Libguestfs] [PATCH nbdkit 4/4] Add linuxdisk plugin.

[Eric Blake]

On 2/19/19 3:21 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 09:21:10AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Missing an unlink().  Also, does the caller properly use close(disk->fd)
>> on early exits like this, or does it not matter because we're just going
>> to exit()?
> 
> Just about the early exits: I started off trying to get those paths
> right but it made the code ridiculously complicated so I gave up.  As
> you say config_complete just calls exit, so it's not really a problem,
> in fact more likely to cause bugs than fix them.

Fair enough. The unlink() is an obvious cleanup worth doing (no need to
litter $TMPDIR, as the filesystem is not an automatic cleanup on process
termination), but memory/fd leaks are acceptable, although it's probably
also worth a comment in the code stating that we know we are leaking on
failure on the assumption that the caller will exit().

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