Re: [patch] error reporting

2000-09-03 Thread Alessandro Rubini
That change breaks the utility `grub-install'. You need to invent another way (e.g. "Error: Selected disk does not exist (21)" is ok). Hmm... ok. Changing grub-install (appended)? The extra newline is _not_ wasteful. For example, try this: grub foo [TAB] I was guessing (without looking

Re: [patch] error reporting

2000-09-03 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Alessandro Rubini [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [patch] error reporting Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 08:43:09 +0200 Hmm... ok. Changing grub-install (appended)? Ok. Isn't it worth trying to use libreadline (static ;) instead? No. It is a completely user-level library, so it isn't

[patch] error reporting

2000-09-02 Thread Alessandro Rubini
I'm looking in the manual and I felt error reporting needed a minor change. Rationale: stage-1.5 errors must be ordered numerically (in the docs), so the user finds them. But stage-2 errors should be order alphabetically, otherwise the user must do an exhaustive search. Thus, in stage 2 I