> should be perfectly writable having just been created and checked for 
errors on os.Create a few lines earlier

past performance is not a predictor of future results :p

are you writing to an NFS mount point?


On Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 8:55:36 AM UTC-7, Chris Hopkins wrote:
>
> So amusingly I've just had Gob report the following error:
>
> panic: write gob_fetch.txt: host is down
>
> It referring to a file as a host is of course understandable but it's a 
> little troublesome because as far as I can tell the file should be 
> perfectly writable having just been created and checked for errors on 
> os.Create a few lines earlier.
> I have a vague memory that there was a package someone major in the Go 
> project wrote to create an error stack. I guess this hasn't been ported to 
> the whole standard library given the above error.
>
> What's the current thinking on this sort of error handling? It's hard to 
> say "Handle errors properly" when the standard library is butchering the 
> original error message. Or is there a way to extract the source error 
> message that I am missing? [at the moment I'm just doing a panic(err)]
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris
>
>

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