[PATCH 2/3] virdnsmasq: Lookup DNSMASQ in PATH

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Tue Jan 11 10:18:23 UTC 2022


On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 09:59:06AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 09:28:45AM +0100, Michal Prívozník wrote:
> > Thanks, but as I was looking through virFindFileInPath() I've noticed
> > that if the file exists but is not executable then NULL is returned, so
> > we will need a fallback case. Effectively this needs to be squashed in:
>
> Why do we need a fallback ?  If someone has put 'dnsmasq' in $PATH
> without the execute bit set, surely that's just a broken deployment
> and returning NULL is correct.

Agreed in general, but we want the test suite to still pass even if
dnsmasq is not installed on the build machine. The approach I
suggested in my other message would achieve that.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization





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