Derek Price dixit: >>Yes, that's why I was suggesting to print the error message to stderr >>so at least the client gets an idea about what happened and can slap >>the server administrator. CVS does this for quite some occasions, for >>example no space available in the server's temporary directory. > >Could you point me at the code that does this?
Not out of the blue, I had to check. But it happens frequently when e.g. the OpenBSD anoncvs servers are overloaded. >How much good would sending the message to stderr really do? This >problem can only occur on the server, where sending to stderr, at best, >can only be reported to the client as an unrecognized protocol response, >if reported at all, once the network buffers are disabled (the network >buffer code is what is calling pagealign_alloc() here). No, it's actually displayed by the client (with my first diff). bye, //mirabile -- > Hi, does anyone sell openbsd stickers by themselves and not packaged > with other products? No, the only way I've seen them sold is for $40 with a free OpenBSD CD. -- Haroon Khalid and Steve Shockley in gmane.os.openbsd.misc _______________________________________________ Bug-cvs mailing list Bug-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cvs