On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 04:17:57PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
> > I was getting failures of domain/103-blockdev-save-restore.t when
> > connecting as qemu:///session, since my uid could stat /dev/sdb but
> > not open it. That test now skips for unprivileged users, as well as
> > adds a layer of sanity checking against expected size to avoid
> > trashing the wrong device.
> >
> > * conf/default.cfg (host_block_devices): Document optional size.
> > * lib/Sys/Virt/TCK.pm (get_host_block_device): If optional size is
> > supplied, skip a device that does not match. Also, avoid devices
> > that can't be opened.
> > ---
> >
> > Thanks again to Jim and Daniel for the helpful feedback.
> > Here's the version I actually pushed, based on your feedback.
>
> > diff --git a/lib/Sys/Virt/TCK.pm b/lib/Sys/Virt/TCK.pm
> ...
>
> Normally I wouldn't go into such detail, but you did say
> you're new to Perl, so...
>
> > - return $self->config("host_block_devices/[$devindex]", undef);
> > + my $device = ($self->config("host_block_devices/[$devindex]/path",
> > undef)
> > + || $self->config("host_block_devices/[$devindex]", undef));
> > + return undef unless $device;
>
> Personally I avoid the above ordering of constructs, since it places
> the unlikely event "return" first, and putting it all on one line
> makes it harder to see there's a conditional.
I actually like this style, because it reads like I think it :-)
"return unless the device is defined"
Daniel
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