[libvirt PATCH 2/2] tests: don't set G_DEBUG=fatal-warnings on macOS

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Fri Apr 29 08:05:42 UTC 2022


On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 05:55:41PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 08:33:46AM -0700, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > In other words, the current implementation of g_poll() on macOS
> > doesn't follow the contract defined by GLib itself. It seems to me
> > that this is a (fairly serious) bug in the library, no?
>
> It is significant, but long standing. GLib actually had this behaviour
> forever on macOS, but it regressed when Meson was introduced, until
> the recent fix.
>
> The question is whether efficiency trumps API semantics. Normally I'm
> heavily biased towards API semantics, but poll is a performance
> critical API, so it isn't so easy to declare we must workaround all
> the quirks.
>
> I filed a bug to raise the subject for discussion though
>
>   https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2644

That's an excellent bug report! Thanks for spending time on it, and
let's see where the upstream discussion leads :)

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization



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