Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] parse container id in separate function

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:07:31PM +0400, Evgeniy Sokolov wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 01:41:27PM +0400, Evgeniy Sokolov wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 07:16:25PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >>>> Right, let's reuse it, but I notice we are using strtol() in a lot of >>>> places ...openvz driver is not the worse here especially since it has >>>> already an encapsulating function. >>> I did not know about virStrToLong_i(). Thanks. >>> Also, I think it would be convenient to create simple function >>> >>> int >>> virStrToLongSimple_i(const char *str, int *result) >>> { >>> char *endptr; >>> >>> return virStrToLong_i(str, &endptr, 10, result); >>> } >> If you don't want to deal wit the endptr return value, you can simply >> pass in NULL for that param. > from notes: > When END_PTR is NULL, the byte after the final valid digit must be NUL. > > I don't want to deal the endptr. But I want to parse strings like > " 123 abc". Why ? Everywhere else in libvirt treats that as mal-formed input and rejects it.