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Date:      Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:33:13 +0100
From:      =?iso-8859-2?Q?Edward_Tomasz_Napiera=B3a?= <trasz@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: No human readable message with g_vfs
Message-ID:  <47B52F19-AB6B-4116-9F5E-219B26519115@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110103141830.GC3140@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
References:  <4D1B0E41.40405@gmail.com> <ifsi3f$5ub$1@dough.gmane.org> <4D21CC35.5060803@gmx.de> <20110103141830.GC3140@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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Wiadomo=B6=E6 napisana przez Kostik Belousov w dniu 2011-01-03, o godz. =
15:18:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 02:16:37PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
>> Am 03.01.2011 14:14, schrieb Ivan Voras:
>>> On 12/29/10 11:32, David Demelier wrote:
>>>> /var/log/messages.5.bz2:Nov 29 16:36:52 Abricot kernel:
>>>> g_vfs_done():ufs/public[READ(offset=3D232718991360, =
length=3D131072)]error
>>>> =3D 5
>>>>=20
>>>> I think for a lambda user these are absolutely not understandable. =
I
>>>=20
>>> Would a better message be "WRITE error on da0, offset=3D34590720.
>>> length=3D65536, errno=3D5"?
>>=20
>> nah, strerror(errno) isn't that much of an effort
> In kernel ? There is no strerror, and there is no great need to import =
the
> sys_errlist.

I had code that adds strerror() to the kernel in one of my old p4 =
branches.
Error messages like the one above look much better this way, but I =
didn't
have time to push it into the tree, and there is a risk of yet another =
i18n
discussion.  If someone is interested - let me know; I'll try to find =
it.

--
If you cut off my head, what would I say?  Me and my head, or me and my =
body?




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