Bug 672491

Summary:	RFE: guestfs_last_errno should be exposed in perl bindings
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Matthew Booth <mbooth>
Component:	libguestfs	Assignee:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.1	CC:	jzheng, leiwang, rwu
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Fixed In Version:	libguestfs-1.7.17-24.el6	Doc Type:	Enhancement
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Description Matthew Booth 2011-01-25 10:31:21 UTC

guestfs_last_errno() isn't exposed in the perl bindings, meaning it is not directly possible to determine the cause of a failure.

An example which has come up recently in virt-v2v is failure checking on mkdir(). EEXIST would be non-fatal, but any other error would be fatal.

Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2011-01-25 10:56:10 UTC

We seem to have agreed to defer this to 6.2.  Setting flags
accordingly.

Comment 3 Richard W.M. Jones 2011-03-15 16:52:27 UTC

Patch posted upstream:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2011-March/msg00077.html

Comment 4 Richard W.M. Jones 2011-03-15 16:53:14 UTC

Sorry, this is not the upstream bug, setting state
back to ASSIGNED.

Comment 5 Richard W.M. Jones 2011-03-15 22:45:22 UTC

Upstream:
http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=883390fb2e8cdaf81223eb41c87f245571e3d63d

Comment 6 Richard W.M. Jones 2011-06-12 18:12:33 UTC

dev-ack'd for RHEL 6.2.

Comment 7 Richard W.M. Jones 2011-08-10 16:00:53 UTC

https://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/taskinfo?taskID=3546057

Comment 9 Jinxin Zheng 2011-08-18 09:20:14 UTC

Verified this using this script:

$ perl <<'EOF'
use Sys::Guestfs;
my $h = Sys::Guestfs->new ();
print $h->last_errno();
EOF

script output:

libguestfs-1.7.17-19:
Can't locate object method "last_errno" via package "Sys::Guestfs" at - line 3.


libguestfs-1.7.17-26:
0

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 10:42:14 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1512.html