[libvirt] [PATCH] util: make interface.c functions consistently return < 0 on error

Laine Stump laine at laine.org
Fri Jul 22 13:30:22 UTC 2011


On 07/22/2011 12:22 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 07/21/2011 10:03 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
>> (This patch must be pushed before the "listenNetwork" patches can be
>> pushed)
>>
>> All of the functions in util/interface.c were returning 0 on success,
>> but some returned -1 on error, and some returned a positive value
>> (usually the value of errno, but sometimes just 1). Libvirt's standard
>> is to return<  0 on error (in the case of functions that need to
>> return errno, -errno is returned.
>>
>> This patch modifies all functions in interface.c to consistently
>> return<  0 on error, and makes changes to callers of those functions
>> where necessary.
>
> I looked through the source code, and think you got all of the callers 
> correctly, as well as all of interface.c.  Hopefully I didn't miss 
> anything.
>

Thanks, I just pushed it.

Of course now that I've seen Dan's idea for nicer XML, it will be awhile 
before I push the "listenNetwork" series that brought this up (hmm, I'll 
have to change my shorthand for it, since that attribute will disappear)




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