On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 05:47:04PM +0530, Avra Sengupta wrote: > Hi, > > Today whenever a gluster command fails the ret code is always 1. > Irrespective of the failure. I have sent the following patch which takes a > first step towards bringing some order to this chaos. > http://review.gluster.org/10313 > > It addresses the following scenarios: > > 1. Invalid Syntax: I have incorporated this for the snapshot commands only > for now. In case of an invalid syntax the retcode will be 2. > 2. Another transaction in progress errors: In case the command fails to > acquire a lock, because another transaction is in progress the retcode will > be 3. > > If the approach is fine, and it's fine to go with such incremental retcodes, > then once this patch gets accepted, I will send further patches on top of > this one. I would also urge other component owners to block retcodes for > their components in "glusterd-errno.h", and start doing the same.
Sounds like a very useful improvement. Please document these return codes as much as possible in "man gluster" too. Thanks, Niels
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