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Eric Blake
1bf25ba249 docs: fix usage of 'onto'
http://www.uhv.edu/ac/newsletters/writing/grammartip2009.07.01.htm
(and several other sites) give hints that 'onto' is best used if
you can also add 'up' just before it and still make sense. In many
cases in the code base, we really want the two-word form, or even
a simplification to just 'on' or 'to'.

* docs/hacking.html.in: Use correct 'on to'.
* python/libvirt-override.c: Likewise.
* src/lxc/lxc_controller.c: Likewise.
* src/util/virpci.c: Likewise.
* daemon/THREADS.txt: Use simpler 'on'.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Better usage.
* docs/internals/rpc.html.in: Likewise.
* src/conf/domain_event.c: Likewise.
* src/rpc/virnetclient.c: Likewise.
* tests/qemumonitortestutils.c: Likewise.
* HACKING: Regenerate.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2013-04-19 14:31:16 -06:00
Osier Yang
06902a6f18 docs: Update HACKING
To tell libvirt-{qemu,lxc}.h shouldn't be included either.
2013-04-18 11:43:18 +08:00
Daniel P. Berrange
11d926659b Turn virSecurityManager into a virObjectLockable
To enable locking to be introduced to the security manager
objects later, turn virSecurityManager into a virObjectLockable
class

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2013-02-11 12:33:41 +00:00
John Ferlan
debe6fd22b HACKING: Sync with docs/hacking.html.in 2013-02-07 14:08:15 -05:00
Martin Kletzander
901f4b6b86 docs: aesthetical cleanups
Adding dots inside "exempli gratia" where missing.  While on that, I
took the liberty of changing it where found with simple grep.
2013-01-30 09:37:03 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
907a39e735 Add a test suite for validating SELinux labelling
There are many aspects of the guest XML which result in the
SELinux driver applying file labelling. With the increasing
configuration options it is desirable to test this behaviour.
It is not possible to assume that the test suite has the
ability to set SELinux labels. Most filesystems though will
support extended attributes. Thus for the purpose of testing,
it is possible to extend the existing LD_PRELOAD hack to
override setfilecon() and getfilecon() to simply use the
'user.libvirt.selinux' attribute for the sake of testing.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2013-01-14 13:40:04 +00:00
Eric Blake
a2acdb3dd2 docs: mention git rename detection
I've noticed a number of people sending patches with file
renames not compressed, so we might as well document how to
set this up.  (Git won't do it by default, for back-compat
reasons)

* docs/hacking.html.in: Add git config tip.
* HACKING: Regenerate.
2013-01-11 10:30:49 -07:00
Eric Blake
ed4bbe6bc4 docs: add some more hacking tips
Based on a suggestion by John Ferlan:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-January/msg00158.html

* docs/hacking.html.in: Add some commit message instructions.
Mention the ./run script.
* HACKING: Regenerate.
2013-01-11 10:30:49 -07:00
Daniel P. Berrange
a3e95abeb5 Document bracket whitespace rules & add syntax-check rule
This documents the following whitespace rules

      if(foo)   // Bad
      if (foo)  // Good

      int foo (int wizz)  // Bad
      int foo(int wizz)   // Good

      bar = foo (wizz);  // Bad
      bar = foo(wizz);   // Good

      typedef int (*foo) (int wizz);  // Bad
      typedef int (*foo)(int wizz);   // Good

      int foo( int wizz );  // Bad
      int foo(int wizz);    // Good

There is a syntax-check rule extension to validate all these rules.
Checking for 'function (...args...)' is quite difficult since it
needs to ignore valid usage with keywords like 'if (...test...)'
and while/for/switch. It must also ignore source comments and
quoted strings.

It is not possible todo this with a simple regex in the normal
syntax-check style. So a short Perl script is created instead
to analyse the source. In practice this works well enough. The
only thing it can't cope with is multi-line quoted strings of
the form

 "start of string\
more lines\
more line\
the end"

but this can and should be written as

 "start of string"
 "more lines"
 "more line"
 "the end"

with this simple change, the bracket checking script does not
have any false positives across libvirt source, provided it
is only run against .c files. It is not practical to run it
against .h files, since those use whitespace extensively to
get alignment (though this is somewhat inconsistent and could
arguably be fixed).

The only limitation is that it cannot detect a violation where
the first arg starts with a '*', eg

   foo(*wizz);

since this generates too many false positives on function
typedefs which can't be supressed efficiently.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-11-02 14:00:32 +00:00
Ján Tomko
149c87b49d Various typos and misspellings 2012-10-12 00:03:43 +02:00
Doug Goldstein
07cbb610ba Update how to compile with -Werror
--enable-compile-warnings=error has been renamed to --enable-werror so
update the HACKING and the hacking.html to reflect that.
2012-09-25 09:12:01 -06:00
Eric Blake
f36fadca10 build: avoid dirty docs on fresh bootstrap
* HACKING: Regenerate.
2012-09-11 15:26:10 -06:00
Laine Stump
7038322991 docs: point out git send-email location, be more stern about make check
An email came to libvir-list wondering why the git send-email command
was missing in spite of having git installed; this is due to the
send-email command being in a sub-package of the main git package.

While touching the hacking file, I thought it would be useful to 1)
indicate the location of the source (docs/hacking.html.in) in the
message at the top of HACKING, and also to make the note about running
"make check" and "make syntax-check" a bit more stern.
2012-09-08 23:20:29 -04:00
Michal Privoznik
a8d63a485e docs: Improve patch submission guidelines
We should really advise (new) developers to send rebased patches
that apply cleanly and use git-send-email rather than all other
obscure ways.
2012-07-16 11:05:12 +02:00
Guido Günther
3addd15195 Document STREQ_NULLABLE and STRNEQ_NULLABLE 2011-10-06 16:50:38 +02:00
Eric Blake
8e22e08935 build: rename files.h to virfile.h
In preparation for a future patch adding new virFile APIs.

* src/util/files.h, src/util/files.c: Move...
* src/util/virfile.h, src/util/virfile.c: ...here, and rename
functions to virFile prefix.  Macro names are intentionally
left alone.
* *.c: All '#include "files.h"' uses changed.
* src/Makefile.am (UTIL_SOURCES): Reflect rename.
* cfg.mk (exclude_file_name_regexp--sc_prohibit_close): Likewise.
* src/libvirt_private.syms: Likewise.
* docs/hacking.html.in: Likewise.
* HACKING: Regenerate.
2011-07-21 10:34:51 -06:00
Eric Blake
68ea80cfdd maint: rename virBufferVSprintf to virBufferAsprintf
We already have virAsprintf, so picking a similar name helps for
seeing a similar purpose.  Furthermore, the prefix V before printf
generally implies 'va_list', even though this variant was '...', and
the old name got in the way of adding a new va_list version.

global rename performed with:

$ git grep -l virBufferVSprintf \
  | xargs -L1 sed -i 's/virBufferVSprintf/virBufferAsprintf/g'

then revert the changes in ChangeLog-old.
2011-05-05 13:47:40 -06:00
Eric Blake
06732e1a7d docs: mention C89 syntax preferences
* docs/hacking.html.in (Code formatting): Document that // comment
and declaration-after-statement are discouraged.
* HACKING: Regenerate.
2011-03-30 13:51:22 -06:00
Hu Tao
838f669682 Add vim configuration that makes vim auto-indent code 2011-03-17 17:08:51 -06:00
Eric Blake
1000d9c2b0 maint: document dislike of mismatched if/else bracing
* docs/hacking.html.in (Curly braces): Tighten recommendations to
disallow if (cond) one-line; else { block; }.
* HACKING: Regenerate.
Suggested by Daniel P. Berrange.
2011-01-05 11:05:28 -07:00
Jiri Denemark
5414d6b6ae doc: Fix spelling of virBufferVSprintf 2010-11-25 18:14:58 +01:00
Eric Blake
149c492137 libvirtd: fix bug when shrinking number of clients
* daemon/libvirtd.c (qemudRunLoop): Pass allocation size, not
current count, to VIR_SHRINK_N.
* docs/hacking.html.in: Update doc example.
* HACKING: Regenerate.
2010-11-23 08:43:00 -07:00
Eric Blake
269d3b72f6 memory: make it easier to avoid quadratic scaling of arrays
* src/util/memory.h (VIR_RESIZE_N): New macro.
* src/util/memory.c (virResizeN): New function.
* src/libvirt_private.syms: Export new helper.
* docs/hacking.html.in: Document it.
* HACKING: Regenerate.
2010-11-18 12:17:49 -07:00
Eric Blake
5a0beacc12 memory: make it safer to expand arrays
* src/util/memory.h (VIR_REALLOC_N): Update docs.
(VIR_EXPAND_N, VIR_SHRINK_N): New macros.
(virAlloc, virAllocN, virReallocN, virAllocVar, virFree): Add some
gcc attributes.
* src/util/memory.c (virExpandN, virShrinkN): New functions.
(virReallocN): Update docs.
* src/libvirt_private.syms: Export new helpers.
* docs/hacking.html.in: Prefer newer interfaces over
VIR_REALLOC_N, since uninitialized memory can bite us.
* HACKING: Regenerate.
2010-11-18 12:11:43 -07:00
Eric Blake
e8aba782e7 maint: avoid remaining sprintf uses
* cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_sprintf): New rule.
(sc_prohibit_asprintf): Avoid false positives.
* docs/hacking.html.in (Printf-style functions): Document the
policy.
* HACKING: Regenerate.
* .x-sc_prohibit_sprintf: New exemptions.
* Makefile.am (syntax_check_exceptions): Ship new file.
* src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c (vboxStartMachine, vboxAttachUSB): Use
virAsprintf instead.
* src/uml/uml_driver.c (umlOpenMonitor): Use snprintf instead.
* tools/virsh.c (cmdDetachInterface): Likewise.
* src/security/security_selinux.c (SELinuxGenSecurityLabel):
Likewise.
* src/openvz/openvz_driver.c (openvzDomainDefineCmd): Likewise,
and ensure large enough buffer.
2010-11-17 10:13:12 -07:00
Stefan Berger
7b7cb1ecc9 deprecate fclose() and introduce VIR_{FORCE_}FCLOSE()
Similarly to deprecating close(), I am now deprecating fclose() and
introduce VIR_FORCE_FCLOSE() and VIR_FCLOSE(). Also, fdopen() is replaced with
VIR_FDOPEN().

Most of the files are opened in read-only mode, so usage of
VIR_FORCE_CLOSE() seemed appropriate. Others that are opened in write
mode already had the fclose()<  0 check and I converted those to
VIR_FCLOSE()<  0.

I did not find occurrences of possible double-closed files on the way.
2010-11-16 21:13:29 -05:00
Matthias Bolte
34ed4e9809 Generate HACKING from docs/hacking.html.in 2010-11-12 19:47:20 +01:00
Stefan Berger
f04de501bc Introduce VIR_CLOSE to be used rather than close()
Since bugs due to double-closed file descriptors are difficult to track down in a multi-threaded system, I am introducing the VIR_CLOSE(fd) macro to help avoid mistakes here.

There are lots of places where close() is being used. In this patch I am only cleaning up usage of close() in src/conf where the problems were.

I also dare to declare close() as being deprecated in libvirt code base (HACKING).
2010-10-19 10:23:51 -04:00
Jim Meyering
44258473b8 docs: hacking: explain why using curly braces well is important
* docs/hacking.html.in: Use the "curly braces" section from coreutils'
HACKING, adapting for libvirt's different formatting style.
* HACKING: Sync from the above, still mostly manually.
2010-05-04 15:41:21 +02:00
Jim Meyering
d1c754168a doc: fix typos in hacking.html.in; mark HACKING as read-only
* HACKING: Mark as read-only.  Soon we'll generate it from...
* docs/hacking.html.in: ... this file.  More typo fixes.
2010-03-09 18:18:20 +01:00
Jim Meyering
2a13ecc9be doc: fix more typos in HACKING
* HACKING: More spelling/typo fixes.
2010-03-09 17:26:24 +01:00
Eric Blake
095375925e hacking: add a section on preprocessor conventions
* doc/hacking.html.in (preprocessor): New section to document
recently-discussed style issues.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2010-03-09 17:07:15 +01:00
Eric Blake
0be3783316 hacking: fix typos
* docs/hacking.html.in (committers): Fix spelling and grammar.
2010-03-09 17:01:20 +01:00
Matthias Bolte
8ce5e2c1ab Remove conn parameter from virReportOOMError 2010-02-09 01:04:54 +01:00
Matthias Bolte
b1cd474c77 docs: Refer to virReportOOMError in the HACKING file
Instead of refering to __virRaiseError(VIR_ERROR_NO_MEMORY).
2010-02-04 19:09:28 +01:00
Eric Blake
3fc974209a maint: fix spelling error in hacking
* HACKING: STRCASEEQ is case insensitive.
* docs/hacking.html.in: Likewise.
2010-01-29 21:48:39 +01:00
Matthias Bolte
728e9229b1 Replace old CVS references with GIT 2010-01-08 18:08:22 +01:00
Matthias Bolte
1b9d074493 Add virBufferFreeAndReset() and replace free()
Replace free(virBufferContentAndReset()) with virBufferFreeAndReset().
Update documentation and replace all remaining calls to free() with
calls to VIR_FREE(). Also add missing calls to virBufferFreeAndReset()
and virReportOOMError() in OOM error cases.
2009-12-10 00:00:50 +01:00
Cole Robinson
9710856b33 tests: Centralize VIR_TEST_DEBUG lookup, and document it
Provide a simple interface for other tests to lookup the testDebug variable.
Also remove a redundant error message in interface tests.

If anyone feels inclined to change this env variable to match the existing
LIBVIRT_* format, it should now be easier to do so.
2009-10-20 14:17:34 -04:00
Chris Lalancette
03d777f345 Introduce virStrncpy.
Add the virStrncpy function, which takes a dst string, source string,
the number of bytes to copy and the number of bytes available in the
dest string.  If the source string is too large to fit into the
destination string, including the \0 byte, then no data is copied and
the function returns NULL.  Otherwise, this function copies n bytes
from source into dst, including the \0, and returns a pointer to the
dst string.  This function is intended to replace all unsafe uses
of strncpy in the code base, since strncpy does *not* guarantee that
the buffer terminates with a \0.

Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>
2009-09-22 20:10:00 +02:00
Daniel P. Berrange
899ae0d2b5 Fix misc Win32 compile warnings
GCC >= 4.4 assumes the 'printf' attribute refers to the native
runtime libraries format specifiers. Thanks to gnulib, libvirt
has GNU format specifiers everywhere.  This means we need to
use 'gnu_printf' with GCC >= 4.4 to get correct compiler
checking of printf format specifiers.

* HACKING: Document new rules for ATTRIBUTE_FMT_PRINTF
* autobuild.sh, mingw32-libvirt.spec.in: Disable OpenNebula
  driver on mingw32 builds
* qemud/dispatch.h, qemud/qemu.h, src/buf.h src/internal.h,
  src/logging.h, src/security.h, src/sexpr.h, src/util.h,
  src/virterror_internal.h, src/xend_internal.c: Change
  over to ATTRIBUTE_FMT_PRINTF.
* src/virsh.c: Disable 'cd' and 'pwd' commands on Win32
  since they don't compile
* src/threads-win32.c: Add missing return value check
2009-07-23 16:07:32 +01:00
Jim Meyering
17bfd657b7 * HACKING: Clarify "bool" vs. XDR/wire-format. 2009-01-13 10:45:41 +00:00
Jim Meyering
33a7dc93d8 HACKING: mention bool and other scalar types, const-correctness 2009-01-05 08:12:11 +00:00
Jim Meyering
e4c7e12300 let gcc's -Wformat do its job; avoid "make syntax-check" failure
* src/util.c (virAsprintf): Remove trailing space.
* src/util.h (virAsprintf): Use ATTRIBUTE_FORMAT.
* HACKING (Printf-style functions): New section.
2008-12-17 17:22:43 +00:00
Daniel Veillard
85432b0bd0 Document somme commit rules, and add application monitoring links to docs
* HACKING: update with some rules for commiters
* docs/apps.html docs/apps.html.in: add a section on monitoring
  support
daniel
2008-10-21 14:26:59 +00:00
Richard W.M. Jones
ccb516144e Link to "how to contribute to open source"
* HACKING: Link to external document which describes how to
	  contribute to open source projects.
2008-08-01 11:25:22 +00:00
Richard W.M. Jones
4a9ebf7da7 General tips for contributing patches
* HACKING: Added section "general tips for contributing patches"
	to this file.
2008-06-02 11:53:23 +00:00
Richard W.M. Jones
1d8d4f86b6 Standardize use of header files, making internal.h primary.
* qemud/internal.h, qemud/qemud.h: Rename this file so it
	doesn't conflict with src/internal.h.
	* HACKING: Document how header files should be used.
	* qemud/Makefile.am: Add src/ directory to includes.
	* qemud/event.c, qemud/mdns.c, qemud/qemud.c, qemud/remote.c,
	qemud/remote_protocol.c, qemud/remote_protocol.h,
	qemud/remote_protocol.x, src/buf.c, src/libvirt.c,
	src/nodeinfo.c, src/qemu_conf.c, src/qemu_driver.c,
	src/stats_linux.c, src/storage_backend.c, src/storage_backend_fs.c,
	src/storage_backend_iscsi.c, src/storage_backend_logical.c,
	src/storage_conf.c, src/storage_driver.c, src/util.c,
	src/util.h, src/virsh.c, src/virterror.c, src/xend_internal.c,
	src/xml.c, tests/reconnect.c, tests/xmlrpctest.c,
	tests/qparamtest.c: Standardize	use of header files.
	* docs/*, po/*: Rebuild docs.
2008-05-23 08:24:41 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrange
d9691ab277 Added some notes about libvirt string/memory/buffer functions 2008-05-08 14:49:53 +00:00
Jim Meyering
fa8ddb744d HACKING: New file: begin to describe contributor/coding guidelines 2008-04-10 16:56:44 +00:00