Re: [PATCH 2/7] Add a virObjectLockable class holding a mutex

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On 01/14/2013 03:26 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>
>> ...but this doesn't unlock anything.  You may want to document that the
>> user is required to unlock the object before losing the last reference.
> 
> So this isn't an issue, though we ought to document locking rules
> I guess.

Thanks for correcting me - you are right that there is no issue except
missing documentation.

>> Is it worth a sanity check that anyobj is actually an object of the
>> right class, before we blindly dereference something wrong due to a
>> coding error?
>>

> 
> Possibily, though what action should we take. These methods really
> need to be void, because it is not practical to check return values
> everywhere. Meanwhile we don't like to abort(). So that leaves the
> possibility of a VIR_WARN ?

Yep, a VIR_WARN in the logs is about the best we can do; but thankfully
the problem is most likely to hit during early development patches, when
someone is more likely to be paying attention to the logs.

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