From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] libxl: fix libxl__abs_path Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:10:41 +0100 Message-ID: <1436883041.25044.79.camel@citrix.com> References: <1436551257-28887-1-git-send-email-wei.liu2@citrix.com> <1436551257-28887-2-git-send-email-wei.liu2@citrix.com> <1436781452.7019.61.camel@citrix.com> <21923.61840.920833.811619@mariner.uk.xensource.com> <1436858595.7019.118.camel@citrix.com> <21924.58143.42391.308384@mariner.uk.xensource.com> <1436880745.25044.64.camel@citrix.com> <21925.5488.720064.657000@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta3.messagelabs.com ([195.245.230.39]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ZF0vP-0006Ia-GT for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2015 14:11:11 +0000 In-Reply-To: <21925.5488.720064.657000@mariner.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Jackson Cc: Xen-devel , Wei Liu , Andrew Cooper List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, 2015-07-14 at 14:58 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [PATCH 1/9] libxl: fix libxl__abs_path"): > > On Tue, 2015-07-14 at 11:23 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > If we don't want to support it we can just remove the check and let it > > > crash. > > > > An assert at least gets us a slightly improved message when it happens. > > If that logic applies here it applies to almost every function in > libxl. I don't think this is a sensible approach. OK.