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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-block@nongnu.org, rjones@redhat.com,
	Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] qemu-io: Prefer stderr for error messages
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:38:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181213143817.GG5427@linux.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181212220410.569069-1-eblake@redhat.com>

Am 12.12.2018 um 23:04 hat Eric Blake geschrieben:
> 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).

So if we decide to actually do this, should this be error_report()
instead so that HMP 'qemu-io' gets the errors printed to the monitor
rather than stderr? Though I think in that case, we'd also want to
redirect the messages that still go stdout to the monitor as well.

But as I said in another reply, I'm not sure if mixing stdout and stderr
with their different buffering settings is even a good idea in a mostly
interactive program.

Kevin

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-13 14:38 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 ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-12-13 14:22   ` 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 [this message]

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