[Libguestfs] [libnbd PATCH 1/3] api: Add get_nr_meta_contexts, clear_meta_contexts

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 06:47:47AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 9/29/20 6:26 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 05:05:16PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> >>+  "get_meta_context", {
> >>+    default_call with
> >>+    args = [ Int "i" ]; ret = RString;
> >
> >Previously we have only used the Int parameter type for things which
> >are plausibly integers (timeouts, signal numbers).  This one really
> >ought to be an unsigned or better still a size_t.  Would it help if I
> >provided a SizeT type for the generator?
> 
> If we take SizeT as parameter for this one, we probably want to
> return an ssize_t for get_nr_meta_contexts, rather than RInt.  Does
> the name RSizeT that returns ssize_t make sense?

Yes we should do this.

Rich.

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