On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 07:13:23AM -0700, William Roberts wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 12:46 PM Yuli Khodorkovskiy <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > The python module import error in semanage_migrate_store was misleading.
> > Before, it would print that the module is not installed, even though
> > it is in fact on the system.
> >
> > Now the python module import failure is correctly reported if the module
> > is not installed or the exact reason for failure is reported to the user.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yuli Khodorkovskiy <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  libsemanage/utils/semanage_migrate_store | 6 ++++--
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/libsemanage/utils/semanage_migrate_store
> > b/libsemanage/utils/semanage_migrate_store
> > index 2e6cb278..50eb59ef 100755
> > --- a/libsemanage/utils/semanage_migrate_store
> > +++ b/libsemanage/utils/semanage_migrate_store
> > @@ -15,10 +15,12 @@ sepol = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary('libsepol.so.1')
> >  try:
> >         import selinux
> >         import semanage
> > -except:
> > +except ImportError:
> >         print("You must install libselinux-python and libsemanage-python
> > before running this tool", file=sys.stderr)
> >         exit(1)
> > -
> > +except Exception as e:
> > +       print("Failed to import libselinux-python/libsemanage-python: %s"
> > % str(e))
> > +       exit(1)
> >
> 
> We should really only be handling exceptions we reasonably expect and
> discourage
> the usage of catching raw Exception, especially considering not-catching
> this will
> cause the runtime to print a stack trace, the error and exit non-zero.
> 
> We probably only need the except ImportError change and can drop the second
> hunk.
> 
> Does anyone disagree with this?
Agreed. catching Exception is bad cuz it also catches KeyboardInterrupt
and stuff like that.

-- Jason
> 
> 
> >
> >  def copy_file(src, dst):
> >         if DEBUG:
> > --
> > 2.19.0
> >
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