Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] block: for a streaming job, fix relative base name arguments

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 12.04.2012 16:12, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> Il 12/04/2012 15:41, Kevin Wolf ha scritto:
>>>>
>>>> As the comments pointed out by Eric and Paolo indicate, the issue is
>>>> worse on some platforms. It would be nice to be able to rely on
>>>> canonicalize_file_name(), so I like Daniel's suggestion of pulling in
>>>> Paolo's proposed glib patch into QEMU.  Any objections to bundling
>>>> Paolo's patch with my next (v1) submission?
>> I haven't looked at that patch yet, but if it's licensed appropriately
>> (IIUC, Paolo is not the only copyright owner), I think we can pull it in.
> 
> I am, but I'm not sure how we would handle backwards-compatibility.
> IOW, we would carry the patch forever.

Until we decide to have a hard dependency on a glib version that
contains the patch, yes. But we carry so many functions of this type,
that one more or less shouldn't make a big difference.

Kevin