Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM Call minutes for 2012-09-25

[Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:59:00 +0200
Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:

> Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > This are this week minutes:
> >
> > - URI parsing library for glusterfs: libxml2 vs. in-tree "fork" of the
> > same code. (Paolo)
> >  * code hasn't changed in 2 years, it is really stable
> >  * anthony wants to copy the code
> >
> > - there are several commands that do blocking IO
> >   dump-guest-memory/screen-dump
> >   convert to asynchronous commands after we move all to QAPI
> >   only two commands missingto port to QAPI, and one is posted on list
> >   non-blocking IO to a file is a challenge
> >   (we have code on the block layer for it)
> >
> > - how to give errors from OpenFile to the caller
> >   putting errno as int: bad idea
> >   putting as strerrno string: also a bad idea, no warantees
> 
> Use the identifiers instead of their non-portable numeric encodings or
> strerror() descriptions: "EPERM", "EINVAL", ...

Yes, but for me the important point in this discussion is whether
or not a new class is necessary. I think it it isn't.