Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:34:43 +0300 From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> To: babkin@users.sf.net Cc: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_mount.c Message-ID: <20051113143443.GA26742@zxy.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <16835761.1131552110894.JavaMail.root@vms074.mailsrvcs.net> References: <16835761.1131552110894.JavaMail.root@vms074.mailsrvcs.net>
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On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:01:50AM -0600, Sergey Babkin wrote: > >From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> > >On Wednesday 09 November 2005 09:30 am, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:08:39PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> +> In message <20051109140419.GD15580@garage.freebsd.pl>, Pawel Jakub > >> Dawidek writes: +> > >> +> > >> +> >In current world order you can decide based on LC_ALL/LANG, etc. > >> +> > >> +> Read my lips: printf(9) and panic(9) are _never_ going to respect > >> +> any environment variable. > >> > >> Printf(9) and panic(9) are for administrator, not for user. > >> Anyway, let's stop here, as we're going nowhere. > > > >If you are going to provide l10n of these messages, you'll need to do it in > >userland somehow. However, if you return strings that task becomes a bit > >harder. I still prefer returning error data, not presentation, and letting > >something else (userland) take care of formatting error data and presenting > >it to the user. > > Maybe it would make sense to split the error code and > any extra data related to the error (for example, > the pathname that caused it or any extra explanation). > The error code would go into errno while only the > extra data would go into the string error. This > extra data won't need to be translaed anyway. A like VMS?
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