[libvirt] [PATCH 3/3] virStream: Remove callbacks on Abort/Finish

Martin Kletzander mkletzan at redhat.com
Thu Jun 1 12:24:19 UTC 2017


On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 01:19:05PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 02:08:34PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>> Users need to remove their callbacks before calling virStreamAbort()
>> or virStreamFinish() even though that's not documented anywhere.
>> Since it makes no sense to keep those callbacks, we can remove them
>> when the stream is being aborted or finished.  That way it is also
>> more intuitive for developers as that removes some confusing errors
>> being reported.
>
>This changes the semantics of a public API though, so even though
>the suggested behavious would be useful, we mustn't do this as it
>creates an API incompatability across versions.
>

I couldn't find any case that could be broken by this change.  Do you
have any in mind?

>
>Regards,
>Daniel
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