[libvirt] [PATCH REPOST 01/38] virlog: Return void instead of int in virLogReset<Foo> methods

Erik Skultety eskultet at redhat.com
Mon Jul 4 14:52:29 UTC 2016


On 10/05/16 01:47, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 05/04/2016 10:30 AM, Erik Skultety wrote:
>> In this particular case, reset is meant as clearing the whole list of
>> outputs/filters, not resetting it to a predefined default setting. Looking at
>> it from that perspective, returning the number of records removed doesn't help
>> the caller in any way (not that any of the callers would actually check for
>> it). Well, callers could detect an error from the number of successfully
>> removed records, but the only thing that can fail in virLogReset is force
>> closing a file descriptor in which case the error isn't propagated back to
>> virLogReset anyway. Conclusion: there is no practical use for having a return
>> type of 'int' rather than 'void' in this case.
> 
> ACK
> 
> - Cole
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Thanks, pushed.

Erik




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