[libvirt] [PATCH 00/23] Take 64 gnulib modules, eliminate 14, to give 50 remaining

[Fabiano Fidêncio]

Daniel,

On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 3:59 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> In the last days before the xmas break I took some time to
> eliminate 14 more gnulib modules, bringing us down to just
> 50 left to go. They're getting harder to eliminate as we go
> on, but to give some hints, I've annotated every module in
> bootstrap.conf with a suggested replacement strategy.
>
> Daniel P. Berrangé (23):
>   build: set min version for CLang to 3.4 / XCode CLang to 5.1
>   docs: expand macOS platform support coverage
>   travis: add macOS Xcode 11.3 testing
>   util: add note about event file descriptors on Windows
>   src: always pull in glib/gstdio.h header
>   src: switch to use g_setenv/g_unsetenv

In the patch above I'd also take the opportunity and use TRUE/FALSE
instead of 1/0 in g_setenv().
Feel free to ignore as this is just a minor nitpick;

>   util: add compat wrapper for g_fsync
>   src: use g_fsync for portability
>   util: introduce virFileDataSync

What would be the impact of using g_fsync() on Linuxes as well?

>   src: use g_lstat() instead of lstat()
>   src: switch from fnmatch to g_pattern_match_simple

This one worries me a little bit about possible breakages, mainly
related to wildcards used in libvirtd.conf.

>   src: replace clock_gettime()/gettimeofday() with g_get_real_time()
>   src: replace last_component() with g_path_get_basename()

Please, take a look at this patch's reply.

>   util: replace IS_ABSOLUTE_FILE_NAME with g_path_is_absolute
>   src: replace mdir_name() with g_path_get_dirname()
>   src: remove unused imports of dirname.h
>   src: replace getcwd() with g_get_current_dir()
>   util: use realpath/g_canonicalize_filename
>   util: replace gethostname() with g_get_hostname()

Please, take a look at this patch's reply.

>   src: replace WSAStartup with g_networking_init()
>   src: replace strptime()/timegm()/mktime() with GDateTime APIs set
>   bootstrap: remove now unused gnulib modules
>   bootstrap: annotate with info about desired replacement
>

All the comments are more suggestions than blockers. The questions are
not blockers in any way.
Knowing that, for the series:

Reviewed-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio at redhat.com>

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