[libvirt] PATCH: Change signature of virEventAddHandle to allow multiple calls per FD

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Nov 19 17:00:48 UTC 2008


On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 02:23:03PM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 04:58:51PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > As discussed previously, this patch changes the semantics of the public
> > API for dealing with file handle watches. Previously we would track the
> > watch based on  the file handle number directly. With this change, the
> > virEventAddHandle method returns an integer 'watch' number. This watch
> > number is required when unregistering or updating a watch. The watch is
> > also passed into the callback when an event occurrs. This allows for
> > multiple watches to be registered against the same file descriptor.
> > 
> > There was quite alot of fallout from this patch requiring many callers
> > to be updated to comply with the new semantics.
> 
>   Okay, +1

Thanks, this is committed too now.

Daniel
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