[libvirt] [PATCH] Cast args/env for execve in virCommand

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Thu May 12 16:37:04 UTC 2011


On 05/12/2011 10:29 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 'char **' is not compatible with 'const char* const*' so needs
> an explicit cast. Fixes the build on MinGW
> 
> * src/util/command.c: Cast args/env for execve
> ---
>  src/util/command.c |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/util/command.c b/src/util/command.c
> index 78586e8..d63b984 100644
> --- a/src/util/command.c
> +++ b/src/util/command.c
> @@ -1000,7 +1000,9 @@ int virCommandExec(virCommandPtr cmd)
>          return -1;
>      }
>  
> -    return execve(cmd->args[0], cmd->args, cmd->env);
> +    return execve(cmd->args[0],
> +                  (const char *const *)cmd->args,
> +                  (const char *const *)cmd->env);

ACK - this fixes things for now. But we really should be fixing the
broken signature of mingw execve via a gnulib module (not yet written).

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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