Let's just go back to the start on this one as light has dawned on marblehead and it's now clear what the technicality I was missing on the reinterpretation of the API docs. On 07/04/2018 05:23 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote: > The documentation to virCommandWait() function states that if > @exitstatus is NULL and command finished with error -1 is > returned. In other words, if @dryRunCallback is set and returns > an error (by setting its @status argument to a nonzero value) we > must propagate this error properly honouring the documentation > (and also regular run). The documentation to virCommandWait() functions states "If @exitstatus is NULL, then the child must exit with status 0 for this to succeed." Thus if a dryRunCallback environment doesn't pass @exitstatus, then when @dryRunStatus is not zero we must return -1. ... So the technicality is that dryRunCallback is always set - whether it's set to 0 in virCommandRunAsync or (inexplicably at this point) to some other value in some as yet to be created mocked/fictitious environment. My first gut instinct on this was why not just return dryRunStatus, but that conflicts with the exitstatus rules and well I just couldn't get past that. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > src/util/vircommand.c | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@xxxxxxxxxx> John -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list