From 5d6a91844520d07f9477e2ddca4caf8f040ef8a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 18:33:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Clarify no additional error available from guestfs_create. --- src/guestfs.pod | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/guestfs.pod b/src/guestfs.pod index b21a25d..9717543 100644 --- a/src/guestfs.pod +++ b/src/guestfs.pod @@ -920,6 +920,12 @@ Out of memory errors are handled differently. The default action is to call L. If this is undesirable, then you can set a handler using L. +L returns C if the handle cannot be created, +and because there is no handle if this happens there is no way to get +additional error information. However L is supposed +to be a lightweight operation which can only fail because of +insufficient memory (it returns NULL in this case). + =head2 guestfs_last_error const char *guestfs_last_error (guestfs_h *g); -- 1.8.3.1