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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1087104 Commit id 'c6212539' explicitly allowed a negative value to be used for offset and length as a shorthand for the largest value after commit id 'f18c02ec' modified virStrToLong_ui() to essentially disallow a negative value. However, allowing a negative value for offset ONLY worked if the negative value was -1 since the eventual lseek() does allow a -1 to mean the end of the file. Providing other negative values resulted in errors such as: $ virsh vol-download --pool default qcow3-vol2 /home/vm-images/raw \ --offset -2 --length -1000 error: cannot download from volume qcow3-vol2 error: Unable to seek /home/vm-images/qcow3-vol2 to 18446744073709551614: Invalid argument $ Thus, it seems unreasonable to expect or allow a negative value for offset since the only benefit is to lseek() to the end of the file and then only take advantage of how the OS would handle such a seek. For the purposes of upload or download of volume data, that seems to be a no-op. Therefore, disallow a negative value for offset. Additionally, modify the man page for vol-upload and vol-download to provide more details regarding the valid values for both offset and length.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>