Re: Entering freeze for libvirt-1.2.4

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On 04/29/2014 01:42 AM, Jiri Denemark wrote:

>>
>> I'm currently seeing some test failures on i386 Debian wheezy:

Thanks for doing 32-bit testing.

>>
>> virstoragetest
>> --------------
>>
>> 97) Chain lookup 27 ... index: expected 0, got 4294967295 FAILED
> 
> Yeah, our virStrToLong_* APIs are not doing a very good job here. The
> problem is that virStrToLong_ui happily parses -1 as 4294967295 on
> systems where sizeof(unsigned long) == sizeof(unsigned int).

We DO have places in our code base where we WANT to parse -1 as
ULONG_MAX (it is a convenience of virsh to be able to have one spelling
that works for both 32- and 64-bit hosts).

> I'm not
> sure what's the best solution for this. Should we parse the string with
> strtoull instead of strtoul to make it a little bit better since
> unsigned long long will always be bigger than unsigned int? Anyway, I
> hate strtou* for silently parsing negative numbers.

Outright rejecting negative numbers by default in our strto* wrappers
does not feel right; maybe we need to flavors of the unsigned wrappers,
the normal one that accepts negatives, and a new stricter one that
rejects negatives.  At any rate, I'll investigate today and propose
something.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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