[libvirt] [PATCH] virsh: let 'connect' without args remember -c option

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 06:35:10AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/10/2012 10:35 PM, Osier Yang wrote:
> > On 2012年06月09日 07:42, Eric Blake wrote:
> >> If a user invokes 'virsh -c $URI', then within that batch shell,
> >> they probably want 'connect' to revert to $URI rather than the
> >> normal default URI you get for passing in NULL.
> 
> >>       if ((defaultConn = getenv("VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI"))) {
> >> -        ctl->name = vshStrdup(ctl, defaultConn);
> >> +        ctl->default_name = vshStrdup(ctl, defaultConn);
> >>       }
> >>
> >>       if (!vshParseArgv(ctl, argc, argv)) {
> > 
> > Isn't the following patch enough for the fix? The problem is just
> > caused by ctl->name is freed even if no --name is specified for
> > command 'connect'. Or I missed something obviously?
> 
> Your proposal also has merit, if for no other reason than that we don't
> lose the current connection on failure to connect elsewhere, but I still
> think we want a combination of both approaches.  Consider:
> 
> virsh -c test:///default 'list; connect qemu:///session; list; connect'
> 
> Under my proposal, the second 'conect' would return us to
> test:///default, since we used -c to establish that as the default
> connection when 'connect' is used without args.  Under your patch in
> isolation, the second 'connect' would leave us stuck in qemu:///session,
> and there is no way to return to our initial default connection except
> to type it out in full.

Personally I think we should return a fatal error if the user
attempts to use 'connect' in non-interactive mode, and not try
to hack it to behave the same as --connect/-c.


Daniel
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