[Libvir] [PATCH] deep copy dom structure

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 02:40:54PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 08:49:12AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 08:12:19AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:02:49PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > > We should at the very least NULL-ify the dom/net fields in the Error 
> > > > object associated with the Connection when we free the Domain/Network
> > > > object.
> > > 
> > >   agreed, very simple test but avoids dandling pointers.
> > 
> >   My patch for this. it's a bit more complex because we also keep a 
> > global variable for the last variable, and that needed to be exported to
> > the hash module, it's still rather simple,
> 
> Yes, ack from me too.
> 
> I'm still going to deprecate these in the OCaml bindings, or maybe
> just change them so you can only do physical pointer comparisons.  I
> just can't see a real life use for them ...  You already know which
> call failed and from that what domain it was operating on, so except
> perhaps in the case of migration there is no new information here.
> Also I've not seen any libvirt program yet which does more than just
> print the error message and either abort or ignore it.

I just looked at the python binding, and it doesn't even bother to copy
the dom/net fields from virErrorPtr into the python layer - just completely
ignores them. Similarly I don't bother to do anything with them in the Perl
bindings.  IMHO, we should just mark them as deprecated in the API docs &
tell people not to use them.  Note, we don't even have the virStoragePoolPtr
or virStorageVolPtr objects in the error either.

Regards,
Dan.
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