[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix errno return in safezero()

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 09:05:55AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/14/2011 08:58 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Most of the safezero() implementations return -1 on error,
> > setting errno. The safezero() impl using posix_fallocate()
> > though returned a positive errno value on error (due to
> > the unusual API contract of posix_fallocate() compared to
> > most syscall APIs).
> > 
> > * src/util/util.c: Ensure safezero() returns -1 and sets
> >   errno on error.
> > * src/storage/storage_backend.c: Change safezero != 0 to
> >   < 0 for detecting errors
> > ---
> >  src/storage/storage_backend.c |    4 ++--
> >  src/util/util.c               |    6 +++++-
> >  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> ACK.  How'd you spot this?

I was calling it in some other code I have, and wondering
why nothing happened to the file on disk. It turns out I
was passing an invalid file descriptor, and I never knew
because it was not correctly reporting the errors.

Daniel
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