[libvirt] [PATCH] libvirt, logging: cleanup VIR_DEBUG0() VIR_INFO0() VIR_WARN0() VIR_ERROR0()

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 04:28:22PM +0200, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 17:24:09 +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> > These VIR_XXXX0 APIs make us confused, use the non-0-suffix APIs instead.
> > 
> > How these coversions works? The magic is using ##.
> > #define high_levle_api(fmt, ...) low_levle_api(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
> > When __VA_ARGS__ is empty, "##" will swallow the "," in "fmt," to avoid compile error.
> > 
> > example: origin				after CPP
> > 	high_levle_api("%d", a_int)	low_levle_api("%d", a_int)
> > 	high_levle_api("a  string")	low_levle_api("a  string")
> > 
> > About 400 conversions.
> > 
> > 8 special conversions:
> > VIR_XXXX0("") -> VIR_XXXX(" ") (avoid empty format) 2 conversions
> > VIR_XXXX0(string_literal_with_%) -> VIR_XXXX(%->%%) 0 conversions
> > VIR_XXXX0(non_string_literal) -> VIR_XXXX("%s", non_string_literal) (for security) 6 conversions
> 
> Hmm, I'm not entirely sure this patch is correct. VIR_XXX0(msg) should really
> be translated into "%s" format string and msg argument. It definitely needs to
> be so when msg is translated (i.e., _("...")).

In 99% of the cases, we don't really need '%s', because the strings
are constant. So only the VIR_ERROR0 replacements need to be fixed to
pass ("%s", ...)

Daniel
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