[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Clarify a couple error messages

[Cole Robinson]

On 05/17/2010 04:09 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/17/2010 01:38 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> A fedora translator filed:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580816
>>
>> Pointing out these two error messages as unclear: "write save" sounds
>> like a typo without context, and lack of a colon made the second message
>> difficult to parse.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c |    8 +++++---
>>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
>> index 582fdee..9ae8307 100644
>> --- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
>> +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
>> @@ -4805,7 +4805,8 @@ static int qemudDomainSaveFileOpHook(int fd, void *data) {
>>      if (safewrite(fd, hdata->header, sizeof(*hdata->header)) != sizeof(*hdata->header)) {
>>          ret = errno;
>>          qemuReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED,
>> -                         _("failed to write save header to '%s'"), hdata->path);
>> +                        _("failed to write domain save file header to '%s'"),
> 
> Four consecutive nouns isn't much easier to parse.  What about:
> 
> failed to write header to domain save file '%s'

Yes, that's much better. Clearly I should spend more effort correcting
my own incoherent sentences :)

I've pushed this patch with your suggested change.

Thanks,
Cole

> 
>>              if (statfs_ret == -1) {
>>                  virReportSystemError(errno,
>> -                                     _("Failed to create domain save file '%s'"
>> -                                       " statfs of all elements of path failed."),
>> +                                     _("Failed to create domain save file "
>> +                                       "'%s': statfs of all elements of path "
>> +                                       "failed"),
> 
> This one's good (and nice that you nuked the trailing '.')
>