[libvirt] [PATCH] libvirt: remove link to outdated mailing list post

Ján Tomko jtomko at redhat.com
Mon Jul 8 06:13:44 UTC 2019


On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 02:42:48PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>The virConnectGetType() method has an unfortunate signature, returning a
>static string that must not be freed by the caller. The remote driver,
>however, gets this string dynamically over an RPC call, which raised a
>design discussion on the mailing list. Eventually the problem was
>resolved by having the remote driver cache the returned string
>internally and free it when the connection was closed.
>
>The link to the mailing list is thus talking about a problem that does
>not actually exist in the final implementation, and at best serves to
>confuse the reader into thinking there might be a memory leak.
>
>Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
>---
> src/libvirt-host.c | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>

Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko at redhat.com>

Jano
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 488 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/attachments/20190708/ab2784f1/attachment-0001.sig>


More information about the libvir-list mailing list