[libvirt] [PATCH] xml: omit domain name from comment if it contains double hyphen

Ján Tomko jtomko at redhat.com
Tue Oct 23 12:16:44 UTC 2012


We put a comment containing "virsh edit <domain_name>" at the start of
the XML. W3C recommendation forbids the use of "--" in comments [1] and
libvirt can't parse it either. This patch omits the domain name if it
contains a double hyphen.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-comments
---
 src/util/xml.c |   14 +++++++++-----
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/util/xml.c b/src/util/xml.c
index 39bc111..f3dc256 100644
--- a/src/util/xml.c
+++ b/src/util/xml.c
@@ -807,12 +807,16 @@ or other application using the libvirt API.\n\
     if (safewrite(fd, cmd, len) != len)
         return -1;
 
-    if (safewrite(fd, " ", 1) != 1)
-        return -1;
+    /* Omit the domain name if it contains a double hyphen
+     * because they aren't allowed in XML comments */
+    if (!strstr(name, "--")) {
+        if (safewrite(fd, " ", 1) != 1)
+            return -1;
 
-    len = strlen(name);
-    if (safewrite(fd, name, len) != len)
-        return -1;
+        len = strlen(name);
+        if (safewrite(fd, name, len) != len)
+            return -1;
+    }
 
     len = strlen(epilogue);
     if (safewrite(fd, epilogue, len) != len)
-- 
1.7.8.6




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