[libvirt] [PATCHv2 1/4] Change virFileOperation to return -errno (ie < 0) on error.

Laine Stump laine at laine.org
Wed Jul 21 18:33:35 UTC 2010


  On 07/21/2010 11:11 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:21:52PM -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
>> virFileOperation previously returned 0 on success, or the value of
>> errno on failure. Although there are other functions in libvirt that
>> use this convention, the preferred (and more common) convention is to
>> return 0 on success and -errno (or simply -1 in some cases) on
>> failure. This way the check for failure is always (ret<  0).
>>
>> * src/util/util.c - change virFileOperation and virFileOperationNoFork to
>>                      return -errno on failure.
>>
>> * src/storage/storage_backend.c, src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
>>    - change the hook functions passed to virFileOperation to return
>>      -errno on failure.
>    ACK,

Pushed. Thanks!




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