On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:03:30PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> "Daniel P. Berrange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
> > + if (virRun(conn, (char**)mntargv, NULL) < 0) {
> > + free(src);
> > + virStorageReportError(conn, VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "cannot mount
> > %s on %s: %d",
> > + src, pool->def->target.path,
> > strerror(errno));
>
> format string mismatch. You probably wanted to include ", error" at the
> end of the arg list, to match the trailing %d.
>
> If this gets by gcc -Wformat then virStorageReportError needs the usual
> __attribute__((printf business, too.
Good idea.
> BTW, I've seen many cases where a diagnostic includes both
> the string, strerrno(error), and the %d-formatted errno value.
> Does anyone know why these diagnostics include the actual errno value?
Historical habit - we should either remove all the errno values, or add them
everywhere we use strerror. The former is probably best - users seeing these
message don't know what the numbers mean
Dan.
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