[libvirt] [libvirt-php] memory overflow when using libvirt_list_networks

[Michal Privoznik]

On 18.04.2015 16:34, Kash Pande wrote:
> On 18/04/15 04:25 AM, Michal Novotny wrote:
>> Hi Kash,
>>
>> there were no patches for libvirt-php for a long time. Are you sure
>> this is libvirt-php related and not a bug in libvirt itself?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michal
>>
> 
> I've just started using libvirt-php this week but I've been using
> libvirt for ages.
> 
> I did learn last night, the difference between my two systems that is
> relevant is that the overflow system ran Gentoo while the "working"
> system ran Debian. I was missing a USE flag for "virt-network" on the
> Gentoo machine. It is a development environment that I am attempting to
> create a supported configuration with, so these kinds of missing USE
> flags and other things are just facts of life I must accept.
> 
> Unfortunately, it was kind-of difficult to get this information or even
> workaround it without rebuilding libvirt on the Gentoo machine, which
> means I won't be able to give a proper error message to users who
> encounter this problem as well.
> 
> It's a problem in libvirt-php to overflow when requesting
> libvirt_networks_list on a machine without networking support compiled
> in. The PHP bindings should error out properly, not memory overflow and
> put errors in httpd log with cryptic results in the interpreter :-)
> 
> 
> I do like the PHP bindings but they appear to be lacking attention. Am I
> the only one using it? ;-)

I guess you are not, but truth to be told it's been a while since I saw
a libvirt-php patch. Mind posting one and break the silence?

Michal