On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 08:20:38AM -0700, Dan Smith wrote: > only current devices, but not device names already planned for the other > half of a container's device pair. Thus, the search can result in attempting > to create a pair of devices such as veth1 and veth1, which obviously does > not work. > > This patch augments the logic to be a little smarter in this regard, and should > fix one case where attempting to start a container results in an error message > of "unable to create device pair". [...] > - if (1 > strlen(veth2)) { > + while ((1 > strlen(veth2)) || STREQ(veth1, veth2)) { > vethDev = getFreeVethName(veth2, veth2MaxLen, vethDev); > DEBUG("assigned veth2: %s", veth2); > } Seems a side effect statement is needed in this loop to exit it if we happen to enter it, no ? Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list