On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 04:09:11PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote: > This should not be needed, but here's what's happening: > virStrToLong_*() family of functions was switched from strtol*() > to g_ascii_strtol*() in order to handle corner cases on Windows > (most notably parsing hex numbers with base=0) - see > v9.4.0-61-g2ed41d7cd9. But what we did not realize back then, is > the fact that g_ascii_strtol*() family has their own global lock > rendering virStrToLong_*() function unsafe between fork() + > exec(). Worse, if one of the threads has to wait for the lock (or > on its corresponding condition), then errno is mangled and > g_ascii_strtol*() signals an error, even though there's no error. > > Read more here: > > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/3034 > > Nevertheless, if we make glib init the g_ascii_strtol*() global > state (by calling one function from g_ascii_strtol*() family), > then there shouldn't be any congestion on the lock and thus no > errno mangling. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > src/libvirt.c | 8 ++++++++ > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
