From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:41701 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726876AbeG3Twv (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2018 15:52:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 20:16:37 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: David Howells , viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 36/38] vfs: Add a sample program for the new mount API [ver #10] Message-ID: <20180730181637.GC2416@amd> References: <20180729113749.GA7333@amd> <153271267980.9458.7640156373438016898.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <153271292330.9458.14583488053811372222.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <25489.1532953411@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20180730143104.GB24051@amd> <20180730180842.GA5544@bombadil.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VywGB/WGlW4DM4P8" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180730180842.GA5544@bombadil.infradead.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --VywGB/WGlW4DM4P8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon 2018-07-30 11:08:42, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 04:31:04PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Well, I guess errors should have numbers, and catalog explaining what > > error means what. That way userspace can translate, and it is what we > > do with errno. > >=20 > > I believe numbers are best. If you hate numbers, you can still use > > strings, as long as you can enumerate them in docs (but it will be > > strange design). >=20 > Have you looked at how gettext() works? It uses the english text as > a search string and replaces it with the localised string. This is > a very common design! Yes, and it needs ("foo %s %d", "bar", 3) as base. Not ("foo bar 3"). Pavel --=20 (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html --VywGB/WGlW4DM4P8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAltfVgUACgkQMOfwapXb+vKc1gCglpZQ6AA69dqgXs7N2XB0Cvni iXsAoL6VQoDipLg3eHhaAWLH1Ywf1RXu =/g0O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VywGB/WGlW4DM4P8--