From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kraxel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/10]: QError v4
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:42:13 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091123104213.4b7f61f0@doriath> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3iqd48abi.fsf@crossbow.pond.sub.org>
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:02:41 +0100
Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
> Now, what should a client do when it discovers the monitor command it
> needs to use has grown a new error? Refuse to use the command for fear
> of having to present a sub-par error message to the user in case it
> fails?
What's your solution for this problem?
> Yes, the client needs updating in such a scenario. But since it's a
> normal, expected situation, I wouldn't call it a client bug. And
> regardless how we call it, we better handle it gracefully.
The best thing the client can do here is to print the error class.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-23 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-17 19:43 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/10]: QError v4 Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-17 19:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/10] QJSON: Introduce qobject_from_jsonv() Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-17 19:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/10] QString: Introduce qstring_append_chr() Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-17 19:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/10] QString: Introduce qstring_append_int() Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-17 19:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/10] QString: Introduce qstring_from_substr() Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-17 19:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/10] utests: Add qstring_append_chr() unit-test Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-17 19:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/10] utests: Add qstring_from_substr() unit-test Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-17 19:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/10] Introduce QError Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-18 15:16 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-11-18 17:23 ` Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-19 8:42 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-11-19 12:59 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2009-11-18 18:14 ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange
2009-11-18 19:58 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-18 20:13 ` Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-17 19:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/10] monitor: QError support Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-18 15:16 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-11-18 17:29 ` Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-18 18:16 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-11-17 19:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/10] qdev: Use QError for 'device not found' error Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-18 15:17 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-11-18 17:32 ` Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-20 7:23 ` Amit Shah
2009-11-17 19:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/10] monitor: do_info_balloon(): use QError Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-18 15:17 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-11-18 15:58 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-18 18:10 ` Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-18 16:06 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/10]: QError v4 Markus Armbruster
2009-11-18 18:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-19 2:36 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-20 15:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-20 16:20 ` Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-20 16:27 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-20 17:57 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-11-20 17:29 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-11-20 17:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-19 10:11 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-11-20 16:13 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-20 18:47 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-11-20 19:04 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-21 10:02 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-11-22 16:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-23 13:06 ` Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-23 13:11 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-23 13:34 ` Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-23 13:50 ` Alexander Graf
2009-11-24 11:55 ` Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-24 12:13 ` Alexander Graf
2009-11-23 16:08 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-11-23 12:42 ` Luiz Capitulino [this message]
2009-11-23 16:15 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-11-18 18:13 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2009-11-19 10:25 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-11-19 13:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-11-19 14:11 ` Markus Armbruster
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