Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/6] buf: support peeking at string contents

On 06/09/12 06:34, Eric Blake wrote: > Right now, the only way to get at the contents of a virBuffer is > to destroy it. But there are cases in my upcoming patches where > peeking at the contents makes life easier. I suppose this does > open up the potential for bad code to dereference a stale pointer, > by disregarding the docs that the return value is invalid on the > next virBuf operation, but such is life. > > * src/util/buf.h (virBufferCurrentContent): New declaration. > * src/util/buf.c (virBufferCurrentContent): Implement it. > * src/libvirt_private.syms (buf.h): Export it. > * tests/virbuftest.c (testBufAutoIndent): Test it. > --- ACK. Might be useful sometimes. I looked for something like this once.