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From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	rjones@redhat.com, qemu-block@nongnu.org,
	Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] qemu-io: Prefer stderr for error messages
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 10:11:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181213101154.GA5171@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181212220410.569069-1-eblake@redhat.com>

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 04:04:10PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> When a qemu-io command fails, it's best if the failure message
> goes to stderr rather than stdout.
> 
> Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> RFC because at least iotest 60 (found by -qcow2 -g quick) breaks due
> to reordering of output lines, and I'd rather know if we like this
> idea before bothering to revisit all affected iotests (including
> discovering if other slower ones have similar problems).

I think the change is correct. Error messages should never go to stdout.

Regards,
Daniel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-13 10:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-12 22:04 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] qemu-io: Prefer stderr for error messages Eric Blake
2018-12-12 22:11 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2018-12-12 23:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Nir Soffer
2018-12-13  1:26   ` Eric Blake
2018-12-13 10:47   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-12-13 14:05     ` Kevin Wolf
2018-12-13 14:23       ` Eric Blake
2018-12-13 14:34         ` Kevin Wolf
2018-12-13 17:44       ` Nir Soffer
2018-12-13 21:27         ` Eric Blake
2018-12-13 22:13           ` Nir Soffer
2018-12-13 17:15     ` Nir Soffer
2018-12-13 10:11 ` Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2018-12-13 14:22   ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2018-12-13 16:02     ` Richard W.M. Jones
2018-12-13 12:21 ` Wainer dos Santos Moschetta
2018-12-13 14:04   ` Eric Blake
2018-12-13 14:38 ` Kevin Wolf

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