From: Jiri Denemark <jdene...@redhat.com> On most platforms virFileCanonicalizePath is implemented using realpath(), which only works on existing paths.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdene...@redhat.com> --- src/util/virfile.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/util/virfile.c b/src/util/virfile.c index 7cab3d0cd6..242aa7ff88 100644 --- a/src/util/virfile.c +++ b/src/util/virfile.c @@ -3408,7 +3408,8 @@ virFileSanitizePath(const char *path) /** * virFileCanonicalizePath: * - * Returns the canonical representation of @path. + * Returns the canonical representation of @path. This function is only + * guaranteed to work when @path exists. It may return NULL otherwise. * * The returned string must be freed after use. */ -- 2.49.0
