Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
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Eric Blake b9dd878ff8 util: make it easier to grab only regular command exit
Auditing all callers of virCommandRun and virCommandWait that
passed a non-NULL pointer for exit status turned up some
interesting observations.  Many callers were merely passing
a pointer to avoid the overall command dying, but without
caring what the exit status was - but these callers would
be better off treating a child death by signal as an abnormal
exit.  Other callers were actually acting on the status, but
not all of them remembered to filter by WIFEXITED and convert
with WEXITSTATUS; depending on the platform, this can result
in a status being reported as 256 times too big.  And among
those that correctly parse the output, it gets rather verbose.
Finally, there were the callers that explicitly checked that
the status was 0, and gave their own message, but with fewer
details than what virCommand gives for free.

So the best idea is to move the complexity out of callers and
into virCommand - by default, we return the actual exit status
already cleaned through WEXITSTATUS and treat signals as a
failed command; but the few callers that care can ask for raw
status and act on it themselves.

* src/util/vircommand.h (virCommandRawStatus): New prototype.
* src/libvirt_private.syms (util/command.h): Export it.
* docs/internals/command.html.in: Document it.
* src/util/vircommand.c (virCommandRawStatus): New function.
(virCommandWait): Adjust semantics.
* tests/commandtest.c (test1): Test it.
* daemon/remote.c (remoteDispatchAuthPolkit): Adjust callers.
* src/access/viraccessdriverpolkit.c (virAccessDriverPolkitCheck):
Likewise.
* src/fdstream.c (virFDStreamCloseInt): Likewise.
* src/lxc/lxc_process.c (virLXCProcessStart): Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_command.c (qemuCreateInBridgePortWithHelper):
Likewise.
* src/xen/xen_driver.c (xenUnifiedXendProbe): Simplify.
* tests/reconnect.c (mymain): Likewise.
* tests/statstest.c (mymain): Likewise.
* src/bhyve/bhyve_process.c (virBhyveProcessStart)
(virBhyveProcessStop): Don't overwrite virCommand error.
* src/libvirt.c (virConnectAuthGainPolkit): Likewise.
* src/openvz/openvz_driver.c (openvzDomainGetBarrierLimit)
(openvzDomainSetBarrierLimit): Likewise.
* src/util/virebtables.c (virEbTablesOnceInit): Likewise.
* src/util/viriptables.c (virIpTablesOnceInit): Likewise.
* src/util/virnetdevveth.c (virNetDevVethCreate): Fix debug
message.
* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c (virQEMUCapsInitQMP): Add comment.
* src/storage/storage_backend_iscsi.c
(virStorageBackendISCSINodeUpdate): Likewise.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2014-03-03 12:40:32 -07:00
.gnulib@72fb9075b2 maint: update to latest gnulib, for older autoconf 2014-02-21 17:18:34 -07:00
build-aux Make syntax check notice assignments w/o surrounding spaces. 2014-01-20 14:35:26 +01:00
daemon util: make it easier to grab only regular command exit 2014-03-03 12:40:32 -07:00
docs util: make it easier to grab only regular command exit 2014-03-03 12:40:32 -07:00
examples AppArmor: Fix the place where the template should be installed 2014-02-12 06:34:32 -07:00
gnulib maint: update to latest gnulib 2014-01-01 06:02:47 -07:00
include bhyve: add a basic driver 2014-02-19 14:21:50 +00:00
m4 build: use --with-systemd-daemon as configure option 2014-02-26 05:59:22 -07:00
po Release of libvirt-1.2.2 2014-03-02 23:09:45 +08:00
src util: make it easier to grab only regular command exit 2014-03-03 12:40:32 -07:00
tests util: make it easier to grab only regular command exit 2014-03-03 12:40:32 -07:00
tools util: make it easier to grab only regular process exit 2014-03-03 12:40:31 -07:00
.ctags maint: Make ctags work out of the box 2013-07-18 08:47:21 +02:00
.dir-locals.el build: avoid tabs that failed syntax-check 2012-09-06 09:43:46 -06:00
.gitignore Add tests for virUSBDeviceFind functions 2014-03-03 14:35:22 +01:00
.gitmodules make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
.mailmap Autogenerate AUTHORS 2012-10-19 12:44:56 -04:00
AUTHORS.in Add Roman Bogorodskiy to the committers list 2014-02-20 20:51:08 +04:00
autobuild.sh Remove python binding 2013-11-25 16:08:00 +00:00
autogen.sh autogen.sh: Correctly detect .git as a file 2013-08-29 13:19:45 +02:00
bootstrap maint: update to latest gnulib 2014-01-01 06:02:47 -07:00
bootstrap.conf Add helpers for getting env vars in a setuid environment 2013-10-21 14:03:52 +01:00
cfg.mk Add tests for virUSBDeviceFind functions 2014-03-03 14:35:22 +01:00
ChangeLog-old maint: typo fixes 2013-10-22 16:49:32 +01:00
config-post.h build: fix build of virt-login-shell on systems with older gnutls 2013-10-22 09:41:50 -06:00
configure.ac Bump version to 1.2.3 for new dev cycle 2014-03-03 09:43:25 +01:00
COPYING maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL 2013-05-20 14:15:21 -06:00
COPYING.LESSER maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL 2013-05-20 14:15:21 -06:00
HACKING maint: enforce comma style usage 2013-11-20 09:24:18 -07:00
libvirt.pc.in Add missing 'libvirt_lxc_api' variable in pkg-config file 2013-09-04 14:52:40 +01:00
libvirt.spec.in Release of libvirt-1.2.2 2014-03-02 23:09:45 +08:00
Makefile.am Introduce Libvirt Wireshark dissector 2014-01-20 17:09:41 +01:00
Makefile.nonreentrant maint: use LGPL correctly 2013-05-20 14:03:48 -06:00
mingw-libvirt.spec.in Remove python binding 2013-11-25 16:08:00 +00:00
README Correct typos in the documentation (Atsushi SAKAI) 2008-01-24 10:15:13 +00:00
README-hacking maint: relax git minimum version 2010-02-24 14:29:27 -05:00
run.in Remove python binding 2013-11-25 16:08:00 +00:00
TODO Update todo list file to point at bugzilla/website 2010-10-13 16:45:26 +01:00

         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>