[Libvir] Repository for work-in-progress storage patches

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Fri Jan 18 19:55:35 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 07:44:41PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> A few comments:
> 
> You should put #include <config.h> at the very top of all your C files 
> (before any other headers/defines), to avoid warnings.
> 
> There was one place where you'd used virFreeStoragePool, which should be 
> virStoragePoolFree.
> 
> Functions such as 'virDomainDestroy' have changed their semantics in 
> that they now free the virDomainPtr object.  I understand why you do 
> this (the domain no longer exists, so the object cannot be used), but it 
> is a big change from the p.o.v. of those of us using proper garbage 
> collection, and moreover it's an ABI change.  Existing correct code 
> which did 'virDomainDestroy (dom); virDomainFree (dom);' could now segfault.

No it isn't an ABI change. The virDomainDestroy method has always
behaved this way. I simply moved the calls to free out of the per
driver destroy method, and into the top level libvirt.c destroy
method to remove the need for drivers to re-implement this every
time.

Dan
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