[libvirt] PATCH: 12/25: Remove global state from Inotify driver

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 05:43:38PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The 'inotify' driver currently keeps all its state in a global static
> variables. Not so great since we access this from all sorts of places
> and its hard to guarentee thread safety. Also, we're using per-connection
> FD watches to update this state, so if multiple Xen connections were
> active, they'd all be updating the same globl state. So we move the
> state into the virConnect object. This will increase memory usage if
> a single process has multiple Xen connections open though, but not
> by very much

I'm not really familiar with this code.  It seems reasonable, but I'll
let someone else check it.  Just to say ...

> -            if (!memcmp(uuid, configInfoList->doms[i]->uuid, VIR_UUID_BUFLEN)) {

memcmp (...) == 0

or define a new equality test macro?

Rich.

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