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

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Wed Jul 21 15:37:25 UTC 2010


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.

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Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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