[libvirt] [PATCH] Add --downtime option to virsh migrate command

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:35:18AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 03/18/2010 05:17 AM, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> >>> +        res = strtod(arg->data, &end_p);
> >>
> >> Should we be using the gnulib strtod module here?
> > 
> > Why? It doesn't seem to be any better than C89 strtod. Or did I miss anything?
> 
> strtod is broken on a number of platforms in various ways; most of them
> related to parsing the new formats required by C99, but there are some
> other bugs even with C89 parsing as well:
> 
> http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/doc/posix-functions/strtod.texi

Actually, virsh should be using  virStrToDouble(). If there are issues
with strtod(),then virStrToDouble is the place to fix them, using gnulib
for it if applicable


Regards
Daniel
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