Re: [PATCH v4] tools: jobserver: Prevent deadlock caused by incorrect jobserver configuration and enhance error reporting

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> writes:

> Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> writes:
>
>> The warning comes from JobserverExec::open(), for an exception that
>> appears to be expected.  This is the sort of use of exceptions that has
>> made me almost swear off them entirely in Python - it's a huge try block
>> that is using exceptions to hide a bunch of the assumptions and logic.
>> I'll be posting a patch shortly to remove this non-exceptional exception
>> case.
>
> Here's a first step, just to show what I have in mind.

So FYI I'm going to add this into docs-next just to avoid adding a
potentially worrisome build warning to linux-next.  It's not yet in
docs-mw, so it's easily removable if a better way comes along.

jon