[libvirt] (Dropping) OOM Handling in libvirt

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 10:08:44AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 13:19 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 02:00:28PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> >> > One possible complication is that we would not be able to use any
> >> > of the GLib types in our public API... I think the way we should
> >> > approach this is to consider the current public API as if it were
> >> > yet another language binding, the language being plain C in this
> >> > case, and make sure we have a very well defined boundary between
> >> > them and everything else, basically treating them as a separate
> >> > project that just so happens to live in the same repository and be
> >> > developed in tandem. This should also make it easier for us to
> >> > switch to a different programming language in the future, should
> >> > we decide to.
> >> 
> >> I'm not sure why you say we can't use GLib types in our public API ?
> >> 
> >> I think we could use them, but I'd probably suggest we none the less
> >> choose not to use them in public API, only internally :-)
> >> 
> >> But I'm anticipating we could replace virObject, with GObject, and as
> >> such all the virXXXXXPtr types in our public API would become GObjects.
> >> I think we'd likely keep them as opaque types though, despite the fact
> >> that they'd be GObjects, to retain our freedom to change impl again
> >> later if we wish.
> >> 
> >> I won't think we need to change use of 'long long' to 'gint64', etc
> >> Not least because because GLib maintainers themselves are questioning
> >> whether to just mandate stdint.h types.
> 
> Interesting.  Got a link?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1484

Regards,
Daniel
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