Re: [PATCH 05/11] util: use glib string allocation/formatting functions

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On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 01:32:50PM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 10:37:53AM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 18:17:27 +0100, Daniel Berrange wrote:
> > > Convert the string duplication APIs to use the g_strdup family of APIs.
> > > 
> > > Annoyingly our virVasprintf/virAsprintf functions return the character
> > > count, even though 90% of our usage doesn't need it. To retain compat
> 
> The actual percentage is way closer to 100%, the only function that
> actually uses the return value of virAsprintf is virNWFilterSnoopLeaseFileWrite.

Something inthe test suite uses one of these functions, because when
I did have it returning 0, the test suite never printed any output
at all :-)  Given the huge number of calls I didn't want to check
them all for bugs.


> And the only other function needing adjustment is libxlDomainCleanup
> where we check for > 0 instead of >= 0 like in other places.
> 
> Also, making virAsprintf return 0/-1 will actually fix the return value
> of virLogSetDefaultOutput to match its documentation.
> 
> Jano
> 
> > > with these semantics we have a call to strlen which costs CPU time.
> > 
> > I'd rather refactor the handful of cases which care about the formatted
> > length and drop the strlens.

I'd certainly like to 

Regards,
Daniel
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