Replaced all instances of Nicira Networks(, Inc) to Nicira, Inc.
Feature #10593
Signed-off-by: Raju Subramanian <rsubramanian@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
It is (very slightly) risky to open /dev/null every time that we need it,
because open can fail. So this commit opens /dev/null in advance instead.
Coverity #10719.
Until now, the collection of coverage counters supported by a given OVS
program was not specific to that program. That means that, for example,
even though ovs-dpctl does not have anything to do with mac_learning, it
still has a coverage counter for it. This is confusing, at best.
This commit fixes the problem on some systems, in particular on ones that
use GCC and the GNU linker. It uses the feature of the GNU linker
described in its manual as:
If an orphaned section's name is representable as a C identifier then
the linker will automatically see PROVIDE two symbols: __start_SECNAME
and __end_SECNAME, where SECNAME is the name of the section. These
indicate the start address and end address of the orphaned section
respectively.
Systems that don't support these features retain the earlier behavior.
This commit also fixes the annoyance that files that include coverage
counters must be listed on COVERAGE_FILES in lib/automake.mk.
This commit also fixes the annoyance that modifying any source file that
includes a coverage counter caused all programs that link against
libopenvswitch.a to relink, even programs that the source file was not
linked into. For example, modifying ofproto/ofproto.c (which includes
coverage counters) caused tests/test-aes128 to relink, even though
test-aes128 does not link again ofproto.o.
All of these changes avoid using the same name for two local variables
within a same function. None of them are actual bugs as far as I can tell,
but any of them could be confusing to the casual reader.
The one in lib/ovsdb-idl.c is particularly brilliant: inner and outer
loops both using (different) variables named 'i'.
Found with GCC -Wshadow.
Adding a macro to define the vlog module in use adds a level of
indirection, which makes it easier to change how the vlog module must be
defined. A followup commit needs to do that, so getting these widespread
changes out of the way first should make that commit easier to review.
Rather than running signal hooks directly from the actual signal
handler, simply record the fact that the signal occured and run
the hook next time around the poll loop. This allows significantly
more freedom as to what can actually be done in the signal hooks.
Some systems complain when certain functions' return values are not
checked. This commit fixes those warnings.
Creating ignore() function suggested by Ben Pfaff.
In an upcoming commit, ovs-brcompatd will need to create a subprocess and
capture both its stdout and stderr separately, which one cannot do with
simple interfaces such as popen(). This function provides that ability.
To prevent fatal signals in a child process from causing the parent
process's pidfile, etc. to be deleted, we need to block fatal signals
around fork and call fatal_signal_fork() in the child process.
This problem was noticed through code inspection; it has not been observed
in practice.
