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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM Call minutes for 2012-09-25
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:13:44 -0500
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Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> writes:

> On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:59:00 +0200
> Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > This are this week minutes:
>> >
>> > - URI parsing library for glusterfs: libxml2 vs. in-tree "fork" of the
>> > same code. (Paolo)
>> >  * code hasn't changed in 2 years, it is really stable
>> >  * anthony wants to copy the code
>> >
>> > - there are several commands that do blocking IO
>> >   dump-guest-memory/screen-dump
>> >   convert to asynchronous commands after we move all to QAPI
>> >   only two commands missingto port to QAPI, and one is posted on list
>> >   non-blocking IO to a file is a challenge
>> >   (we have code on the block layer for it)
>> >
>> > - how to give errors from OpenFile to the caller
>> >   putting errno as int: bad idea
>> >   putting as strerrno string: also a bad idea, no warantees
>> 
>> Use the identifiers instead of their non-portable numeric encodings or
>> strerror() descriptions: "EPERM", "EINVAL", ...
>
> Yes, but for me the important point in this discussion is whether
> or not a new class is necessary. I think it it isn't.

If we have a tool that needs to differientiate errors, chances are
another user needs to also.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori