[Libguestfs] [PATCH] Change protocol to send Linux errno from daemon to library.

Matthew Booth mbooth at redhat.com
Tue Aug 24 09:32:29 UTC 2010


On 23/08/10 22:43, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> From 0cef389dee418992db186836c8c5f2e3a296f378 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Richard Jones<rjones at redhat.com>
> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:19:24 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Change protocol to send Linux errno from daemon to library.
>
> This changes the protocol so that the Linux errno (if available)
> is sent back to the library.  Note that the errno is not yet
> made available to callers, since it is not clear how best to
> present this Linux-specific number.
> ---
>   daemon/proto.c   |    9 +++++----
>   src/generator.ml |    1 +
>   src/guestfs.pod  |    5 ++++-
>   3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

ACK.

I'm inclined to think about a more general error message structure, but 
I don't see any reason that couldn't be added later if we ever found a 
need for more info in the error message.

Matt
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