Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] block: Propagate error in bdrv_img_create()

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 03.11.2014 um 13:33 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
> On 2014-10-29 at 11:42, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> >On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 01:30:07PM +0100, Max Reitz wrote:
> >>Currently, when trying to create a backed image without specifying its
> >>size, when the backing file does not exist or is not accessible, an
> >>appropriate error message will be generated which is then (in
> >>bdrv_img_create()) prefixed with the image file name and the strerror().
> >>However, both are generally already part of the bdrv_open() error
> >>message, so we should not double this information. An example:
> >>
> >>$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b /tmp/enoent /tmp/img.qcow2
> >>qemu-img: /tmp/img.qcow2: Could not open '/tmp/enoent': Could not open
> >>'/tmp/enoent': No such file or directory: No such file or directory
> >>
> >>Just propagating the error is sufficient:
> >>
> >>$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b /tmp/enoent /tmp/img.qcow2
> >>qemu-img /tmp/img.qcow2: Could not open '/tmp/enoent': No such file or
> >>directory
> >>
> >>
> >>Max Reitz (2):
> >>   block: Propagate error in bdrv_img_create()
> >>   iotests: Add test for non-existing backing file
> >>
> >>  block.c                    |  5 -----
> >>  tests/qemu-iotests/111     | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  tests/qemu-iotests/111.out |  3 +++
> >>  tests/qemu-iotests/group   |  1 +
> >>  4 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >>  create mode 100755 tests/qemu-iotests/111
> >>  create mode 100644 tests/qemu-iotests/111.out
> >Eric: Leaving "inexistent".  It is in several dictionaries besides
> >Wiktionary :).
> >
> >Thanks, applied to my block tree:
> >https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/block
> 
> Did you really? It appears neither there nor did it in your pull request...

Looks like it's missing indeed. Applied to my tree then.

Kevin