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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 02:22:58PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 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.

Well we're not making it any less thread-safe. You alrady have to use the
virGetLastError() global func - we're simply making sure it actually
records all errors. 

To make it thread-safe we'll need to add a real virGetThreadLastError()
API, which is something on my todo list - with that new apps can just
call thevirGetThreadLastError() exclusively and never need to know the
distinction between  global/connection errors which causes so much
trouble. I'm fairly sure I can preseve existing semantics at same 
time with some suitable internal cleverness.

Daniel
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