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From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli-7z/5BgaJwgfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] check for KVM_GET/SET_REG ioctl failures
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 21:39:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070206193939.GE4292@rhun.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45C8D680.3020704-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 01:26:56PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:

> Please don't add exit()'s to a library, these are the sort of things
> we should be trying to remove.

I agree on general principles, but do we envision libkvm.a being used
in anything outside qemu? in any case, if not exit(), what would you
suggest? from a quick reading of the code, it doesn't appear feasible
to go on when get or set regs fail.

> In the very least, you should probably expect to see EINTRs.

Hmm, which code path do you have in mind that can return EINTR here?

Cheers,
Muli

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-06 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-06 18:46 [PATCH] check for KVM_GET/SET_REG ioctl failures Muli Ben-Yehuda
     [not found] ` <20070206184639.GA4292-k73YwwB0fHlWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-02-06 19:26   ` Anthony Liguori
     [not found]     ` <45C8D680.3020704-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-02-06 19:39       ` Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]
     [not found]         ` <20070206193939.GE4292-k73YwwB0fHlWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-02-06 20:59           ` Anthony Liguori
     [not found]             ` <45C8EC44.509-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-02-06 21:09               ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
     [not found]                 ` <20070206210926.GI4292-k73YwwB0fHlWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-02-06 21:20                   ` Anthony Liguori
2007-02-06 21:35                   ` [PATCH v2] " Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-02-06 22:36           ` [PATCH] " James Morris

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