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From: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@citrix.com>
To: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>, Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxlu: Handle += in config files
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:57:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <23936.62575.654137.203162@mariner.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190813164215.GE1289@perard.uk.xensource.com>

Anthony PERARD writes ("Re: [PATCH] libxlu: Handle += in config files"):
> I wonder if instead of doing += on all strings, we should instead have
> `xl' whitelist the few options where += would make sense. (and at that
> point, it would be easy to add a ' ' where is make sense, like
> "cmdline"s. But then, how to tell users that it can't do "name+='-new'"?
> because xlu would just print a warning, and xl would keep going with
> name="".  Try "xl create memory+=42" ;-).

Do we really need to gold-plate it like this ?  If someone tries to
append to a string when it doesn't make sense the software will still
do what they ought to have expected.  And it doesn't seem like a
likely kind of error.

As for the original patch,

Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-17 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-13 14:48 [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxlu: Handle += in config files Anthony PERARD
2019-08-13 15:06 ` Andrew Cooper
2019-08-13 15:30   ` Anthony PERARD
2019-08-13 15:47     ` Andrew Cooper
2019-08-13 16:42       ` Anthony PERARD
2019-08-16 12:47         ` Wei Liu
2019-08-16 13:09           ` Anthony PERARD
2019-09-17 14:57         ` Ian Jackson [this message]
2019-09-20 11:21           ` Ian Jackson

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