[libvirt] [PATCHv2 4/4] Remove erroneous setting of return value to errno.

[Laine Stump]

  On 07/21/2010 11:37 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 07/21/2010 09:21 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>>    ACK, but it seems to me ret being initialized to -1, maybe it's better
>> to be consistent and on all error do a ret = -errno; before
>> virReportSystemError and the goto cleanup.
> If you have the convention of returning -errno, then you must not return
> -1 unless you meant to report EPERM.  I agree with Laine's approach of
> initializing to 0 in this case, since you don't want to leak an
> unintended -1 if that was not the real error.
>

In the case of this function, the patch isn't intended to make the 
function return -errno (like the others in this series), it was just to 
make it consistent; this was a bug that I coincidentally noticed while 
changing the other functions from "return positive errno on failure" to 
"return -errno on failure". I think DV was wondering out loud if we 
should change the convention of this function (from "return -1 on 
error") as well.
In order to do that, I would have to 1) change all other functions that 
are called interchangeably with this function (ie, anything assigned to 
create_func in storage_backend_fs.c, assigned to .buildVolFrom, or a 
couple other places), and 2) assure that all places any of these are 
called are okay with a return that is merely < 0, rather than explicitly 
-1. (and we would also need to make sure that there was a reasonable 
errno to return in every error case; for example in some functions the 
error is caused by a configuration problem, not by some system failure).

Instead of pushing this change right away, I'll go through all those 
functions to see if such a change is possible.