[libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] virnetsockettest: Use a temporary directory in /tmp

[Guido Günther]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 04:28:54PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/02/2011 04:00 PM, Guido Günther wrote:
> >>>+    template = strdup("/tmp/libvirt_XXXXXX");
> >>
> >>No need to malloc() the template.  Just do:
> >>
> >>char template[] = "/tmp/libvirt_XXXXXX";
> >
> >This was actually the first version I had but it didn't seem to match
> >libvirt's style (in the non-const form and I didn't find it in HACKING)
> 
> For something short-lived and cleanly scoped, stack allocation of
> less than 4k bytes is fine; in fact it is even preferable (more
> efficient, fewer failure points).  Perhaps most existing uses of
> mk[ds]temp in libvirt.git happened to malloc, but that's probably
> because they are in situations where the final name must survive the
> scope of the function creating the file.  I don't know that HACKING
> has to specifically speak to this, but I'll review any patch if you
> want to tweak it to make that clear.

I think it's fine as is, I was just wondering about only finding a
single other usage.

> 
> >so I went for the explicit strdup. New version attached.
> 
> ACK to this version.
Pushed now. 
Thanks,
 -- Guido