[libvirt] [PATCH 2/8] virfile: Fix error path for forked virFileRemove

John Ferlan jferlan at redhat.com
Fri Oct 2 13:41:32 UTC 2015


As it turns out the caller in this case expects a return < 0 for failure
and to get/use "errno" rather than using the negative of returned status.
Again different than the create path.

If someone "deleted" a file from the pool without using virsh vol-delete,
then the unlink/rmdir would return an error (-1) and set errno to ENOENT.
The caller checks errno for ENOENT when determining whether to throw an
error message indicating the failure.  Without the change, the error
message is:

error: Failed to delete vol $vol
error: cannot unlink file '/$pathto/$vol': Success

This patch thus allows the fork path to follow the non-fork path
where unlink/rmdir return -1 and errno.

Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan at redhat.com>
---
 src/util/virfile.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/util/virfile.c b/src/util/virfile.c
index 3d7efdc..a81f04c 100644
--- a/src/util/virfile.c
+++ b/src/util/virfile.c
@@ -2364,8 +2364,10 @@ virFileRemove(const char *path,
                 status = EACCES;
         }
 
-        if (status)
-            ret = -status;
+        if (status) {
+            errno = status;
+            ret = -1;
+        }
 
         return ret;
     }
-- 
2.1.0




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