Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 5/5] block: Support GlusterFS as a QEMU block backend.

[Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:20:33AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 20/09/2012 09:53, Paolo Bonzini ha scritto:
> >>>> Would look a bit nicer with strstart() form cutils.c instead of strncmp().
> >> > strstart() works with const char pointers, but I have char pointers here
> >> > which I need to modify.
> > You can pass a char* to a function that accepts const char*.  In your
> > case, the last argument to strstart would be NULL.
> 
> As you pointed out on IRC, you meant the last argument.  I don't think
> it would be a problem to cast that from char ** to const char **.
> 
> Perhaps it would be cleaner to make qemu_gluster_parseuri and
> parse_gluster_spec accept a const char *.  You can replace strtok_r +
> g_strdup with strspn/strcspn followed by g_strndup.

I feel the current approach of using the combination of strncmp, strtok_r
and g_strdup should be good enough.

But if you feel and insist that the right way to do this is to use the
combination of strstart, strspn and g_strndup, I could give it a try.

Regards,
Bharata.