[libvirt] [PATCH v2 0/5]Atomic API to delete snapshot object

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 07:47:06PM +0800, Guannan Ren wrote:
> 
> v1: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-June/msg00573.html
> 
> v1->v2: Remove VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_DELETE_CURRENT flag
>         (name == NULL) means deleting current snapshot object
>         Rebase work
> 
> Add a new snapshot API to delete snapshot object atomically
> 
> int virDomainSnapshotDeleteByName(virDomainPtr domain,
>                                   const char *name,
>                                   unsigned int flags);
> 
> The existing virDomainSnapshotDelete API accepts the snapshot
> object being deleted as an argument that would be not API atomic.

You can already do:

  ss = virDomainSnapshotLookupByName(dom, name);
  virDomainSnapshotDelete(ss, flags);

and your patch is just enabling:

  virDomainSnapshotDeleteByName(dom, name, flags);

I really don't see any reason to add this new API, as it does not offer
any functionality that was not already available.

NACK unless there's better justification of why this is needed.

Daniel
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