On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 01:22:15PM -0500, anth...@codemonkey.ws wrote: > We had a violent^Wheated discussion on IRC about how to move forward > with Luiz's proposed error series. I think we reached consensus. This > note attempts to outline that. > > Principles > ---------- > 1. Errors should be free formed strings with a class code > > 2. There should be a small number of class codes (10-15) added > strictly when there are specific users of a code.
FWIW this is roughly the same scheme that libguestfs uses to report errors: string + error code. It's been quite successful, and IMHO is much better than the large and ill-defined 'virterror' struct that libvirt returns. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top
