[Libvirt-cim] [PATCH 1 of 3] Add function to parse InstanceIDs

[Kaitlin Rupert]

Jay Gagnon wrote:
> Dan Smith wrote:
>   
>> Also, since this is a library function and it could potentially be
>> used in other places down the road, I think it would be better to make
>> it return both sides of the id, as parse_fq_devid() does now.  Yes, it
>> will require the caller to free() another string, but I think its
>> better that way.
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
> Seems like with another 10 minutes ore so you could make it so that
> passing a NULL pointer in for either side of the id would just mean that
> part gets ignored, so you only get the side you are actually interested
> in.  It wouldn't force callers to break from convention but would allow
> for things to be a touch cleaner in the calling function.
>   

Both seem like good ideas.  I'll see if I can write up something reasonable.

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Kaitlin Rupert
IBM Linux Technology Center
karupert at us.ibm.com