[Libvir] [PATCH] Three cleanup patches

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:15:29AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> Daniel Veillard wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 05:24:00PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>>> * Add some extra generated files to .cvsignore
>>>>
>>>> * Remove an unused header in qemud/uuid.c
>>>>
>>>> * Log an error if xenHypervisorOpen fails because xenHypervisorInit has 
>>>> failed.
>>>  just wondering about the last one, would that add a message if trying
>>> as non-root ?
>> Yes it does, so that third patch is wrong.  In fact xenHypervisorInit 
>> already produces errors for all paths except the one where opening the 
>> HV connection fails.
> 
> Just make reporting the HV initialization error message conditional on
> getuid() == 0. We always want to see the error if root, and never if
> non-root.

That's not good.  With the call to virXenError as is in the patch, it 
would hide other important errors.  If we move the error to the part 
where it can't open /proc/xen/privcmd, then people would get that error 
when they didn't have Xen installed (more of a feature than an error).

>> OK to commit the first two?
> 
> Yes.

About to commit.

Rich.

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