ping ... On Fri, 21 Jan 2022, Ani Sinha wrote: > virProcessGetStatInfo() currently is unable to report error conditions because > that breaks libvirt's public best effort APIs. We add a comment in the function > to indicate this. Adding comment here prevents others from going down the path > of reporting error conditions in this functions in the future. It also reminds > us that at some point in the future we need to fix the code so that this > limitations no longer exists. > > Please also see commit > 105dace22cc7 ("Revert "report error when virProcessGetStatInfo() is unable to parse data"") > > Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <ani(a)anisinha.ca&gt; > --- > src/util/virprocess.c | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/src/util/virprocess.c b/src/util/virprocess.c > index b559a4257e..9422829b8b 100644 > --- a/src/util/virprocess.c > +++ b/src/util/virprocess.c > @@ -1784,6 +1784,12 @@ virProcessGetStatInfo(unsigned long long *cpuTime, > virStrToLong_ullp(proc_stat[VIR_PROCESS_STAT_STIME], NULL, 10, &systime) < 0 || > virStrToLong_l(proc_stat[VIR_PROCESS_STAT_RSS], NULL, 10, &rss) < 0 || > virStrToLong_i(proc_stat[VIR_PROCESS_STAT_PROCESSOR], NULL, 10, &cpu) < 0) { > + /* This function can not report error at present. Reporting error here > + * causes some of libvirt's best effort public APIs to fail. This > + * resuts in external API behavior change. Until we can fix this in > + * a way so that public API behavior remains unchanged, we can only > + * write a warning log here. > + */ > VIR_WARN("cannot parse process status data"); > } > > -- > 2.25.1 > >