[libvirt] [PATCH] rewrite virFileLinkPointsTo

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Aug 12 17:22:56 UTC 2008


On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 07:18:00PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I've rewritten virFileLinkPointsTo to be a lot simpler,
> and more importantly, it has far fewer failure points.
> If anyone wants to preserve the original behavior that
> makes it fail when the first parameter does not specify
> a symlink, I can add that.  The only difference in behavior
> would be when the two files are hard-linked.

Nah, that's not a difference we'd encounter with the way
we use this API inside libvirt. 

> In any case, I'll remove the FIXME comment.

Remove the virLog() function too - the caller should be 
responsible for reporting errors / logging if it so 
desires. Aside from that, ACK - this is a very nice
simplification.


Daniel
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