[libvirt] PATCH: Ensure errors are guarenteed reported in virConnectOpen

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:35:18AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The guarenteed correct solution is actually rather simple
> 
>  - Always report errors against the virConnect object, even in the driver
>    open method
> 
>  - In the cleanup patch of do_open() in libvirt.c, if no global error is
>    set, copy the error from the virConnect object's virError, into the 
>    global virError.

+1 , although unfortunately this isn't thread-safe.  Nothing can be
thread-safe unless we change the API.

Rich.

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