[xen-tools-dev] RFC : arguments validation

[Stéphane Jourdois]

Le 17/07/2010 13:38, Stéphane Jourdois a écrit :
> Le 17/07/2010 13:36, Dmitry Nedospasov a écrit :
>> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 01:31:33PM +0200, Dmitry Nedospasov wrote:
>>> Hmm, I'll have to test this later. I haven't found any suffixes in the
>>> xmexamples on my dom0 though, which was my original point. Try setting
>>> Gb, will this work?
>>
>> Actually this reminds me of how confusing this is for people who don't
>> understand what the parameters are for. Does anyone know how the size
>> parameters are actually parsed?
>>
>> It would be nice to have a common format for them. I know that for
>> example, --size<size>G works for me because AFAIK this gets passed
>> directly to lvcreate (as i use LVM).
>>
>> Should we maybe add this to a TODO?
>
> That's exactly what I was thinking 3 minutes ago while replying to your
> previous mail !
>
> I'll do that while finishing the validation patch.
>
> Thanks for the idea.
>

Hi,

After some thought, this would imply to modify current options, so I 
keep this task for later and out of this simple validation patch.

Feel free to add this to TODO as a "sanitize options and arguments" 
item, which would go farther than only integer options.

++
Stéphane (kwisatz) Jourdois.

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