[virt-tools-list] [PATCH 0/3 virt-manager] Various inspection fixes.

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Fri Jun 28 17:11:37 UTC 2013


On 06/28/2013 12:57 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> The first two patches are fixes for inspection in virt-manager.
> 
> *NB* The third patch is for your entertainment only, and should not be
> applied.  The reason is that this patch causes random segfaults (but
> in unrelated code in gtk).  I've tested the Python & libguestfs event
> mechanism very carefully, so I don't believe this is a libguestfs bug.
> 
> I think it might be something to do with threads (is calling
> logging.debug from another thread safe?), or the general complexity
> of Gtk3, GObject Introspection and Python.

Hmm strange. logging.debug should be thread safe. Is the libguestfs callback
invoked synchronously like the libvirt error reporting callbacks? We've never
had a problem with those.

- Cole




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