On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de> wrote: > Am 15.01.2014 03:29, schrieb Peter Crosthwaite: >> Use fprintf(stderr instead. This removes dependency of libqemuutil.a >> on the monitor. >> >> We can further justify this change, in that this code path should only >> trigger under a fatal error condition. fprintf-stderr is probably the >> appropriate medium as under a fatal error conidition the monitor itself >> may be down and out for the count. So assertion failure messages should >> go lowest common denominator - straight to stderr. > > Actually I thought the point of error_report() was to add an appropriate > prefix "qemu-system-foo: ..." to the error message and an optional > timestamp, not to send it to the monitor... >
Well this patch routes it away from the monitor. Never implemented prefixing though. My main motivations were: 1: Text reduction. No need to define local_err and assert them constantly. 2: Full backtraceability of the error. Regards, Peter >> >> Fixes the build as reported by Kevin Wolf. Issue debugged and change >> suggested by Luiz Capitulino. Issue introduced by >> 5d24ee70bcbcf578614193526bcd5ed30a8eb16c. >> >> Signed-off-by: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwa...@xilinx.com> >> --- >> >> util/error.c | 8 ++++---- >> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/util/error.c b/util/error.c >> index f11f1d5..7c7650c 100644 >> --- a/util/error.c >> +++ b/util/error.c >> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ void error_set(Error **errp, ErrorClass err_class, const >> char *fmt, ...) >> err->err_class = err_class; >> >> if (errp == &error_abort) { >> - error_report("%s", error_get_pretty(err)); >> + fprintf(stderr, "%s", error_get_pretty(err)); > > You need to add \n if you do this. > > Andreas > >> abort(); >> } >> >> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ void error_set_errno(Error **errp, int os_errno, >> ErrorClass err_class, >> err->err_class = err_class; >> >> if (errp == &error_abort) { >> - error_report("%s", error_get_pretty(err)); >> + fprintf(stderr, "%s", error_get_pretty(err)); >> abort(); >> } >> >> @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ void error_set_win32(Error **errp, int win32_err, >> ErrorClass err_class, >> err->err_class = err_class; >> >> if (errp == &error_abort) { >> - error_report("%s", error_get_pretty(err)); >> + fprintf(stderr, "%s", error_get_pretty(err)); >> abort(); >> } >> >> @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ void error_free(Error *err) >> void error_propagate(Error **dst_err, Error *local_err) >> { >> if (local_err && dst_err == &error_abort) { >> - error_report("%s", error_get_pretty(local_err)); >> + fprintf(stderr, "%s", error_get_pretty(local_err)); >> abort(); >> } else if (dst_err && !*dst_err) { >> *dst_err = local_err; >> > > > -- > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany > GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg >