[libvirt] [PATCH libvirt v2 1/9] virConnectRegisterCloseCallback: Cleanup 'opaque' if there is no connectRegisterCloseCallback

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 06:40:46PM +0200, Marc Hartmayer wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:22 AM +0200, Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 06:25 PM +0200, "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 08:16:54PM -0400, John Ferlan wrote:
> 
> […snip…]
> 
> >>
> >> If the application wants to access 'opaque' outside the context of the
> >> callback function, it must take steps to ensure it is still alive in
> >> whatever thread it using it. This implies the data passed for 'opaque'
> >> should be ref-counted and they must hold a reference for their own
> >> usage, separately from the reference assoicated with the callback that
> >> will be released by @freecb.
> >>
> >> That all said, we could take a slightly different approach if we want
> >> to be paranoid about this
> >>
> >> eg move the
> >>
> >>     virConnectCloseCallbackDataPtr closeCallback;
> >>
> >> out of the driver specific private structs, and put it in the main
> >> struct _virConnect instead.
> >
> > This sound like a revert of commit “close callback: move it to driver”
> > (88f09b75eb99415c). Shall we really do this?
> 
> Polite ping.

It is mostly  a revert i think


Regards,
Daniel
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