On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM Zhaoxun Yan <yan.zhao...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh! Thank you Kurtis. So do you have a special Editor to inform you about
> the functions? My current editor cannot even tell what type of variable a
> go function would return, let alone parameter hints, etc.
>

I use a VIM plugin that talks to the
https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools/gopls tool. That makes it easy to
jump to the definition of a function or other symbol and find all the
places that use it. It is likely your editor can be configured to interact
with that tool.


> On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM Kurtis Rader <kra...@skepticism.us> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM Zhaoxun Yan <yan.zhao...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> it turned out to be an error misjudgement. The real line that caused
>>> trouble is this:
>>> s = er.Error()+string(out)
>>> The error is gone after I changed it to this line :
>>> s = fmt.Sprintf("%v %s", er, out)
>>>
>>
>> The stdlib os.exec.Command()
>> <https://pkg.go.dev/os/exec@go1.24.4#Command>function only returns a
>> single value. Which should result in a compiler error since your program
>> expects two values. I'm going to guess that you are calling a different
>> function with that name which can return two values and the "er" return
>> value can be nil. Which would result in the "er.Error()" call to
>> dereference a nil value. So I think you have incorrectly diagnosed the
>> cause of the problem. The first statement does not correctly handle "er"
>> being nil. The "fmt.Sprintf()" correctly handles "er" being the nil value.
>>
>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM Zhaoxun Yan <yan.zhao...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> --------------------
>>>> panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
>>>> [signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x18 pc=0x6646f2]
>>>>
>>>> goroutine 1 [running]:
>>>> util.CommandArgs({0xc000093cb0?, 0x2?, 0xc000071380?})
>>>>         /home/zxun/src/util/util.go:49 +0xf2
>>>> --------------------
>>>> This error occurred because package [main] uses a function called
>>>> "CommandArgs" from my self-built package [util] with args in another
>>>> package [conf] in the same directory. Package [util] got lost because it
>>>> does not know where is package [conf]
>>>> like this
>>>> [util] /home/zxun/src/util.go
>>>> [conf] /home/zxun/src/conf.go
>>>> [main] /home/zxun/src/main.go...
>>>> /home/zxun/src/go.mod:
>>>>
>>>> require(
>>>>   util v0.0.0
>>>>   ...
>>>> replace util => ../util
>>>>
>>>> The usage line in main.go:
>>>> fmt.Println( util.CommandArgs([]string{conf.IreportExec,
>>>> conf.IreportScript, "redis"}) )
>>>>
>>>> util.CommandArgs:
>>>>
>>>> func CommandArgs(args []string) string{
>>>>   if len(args) ==0{
>>>>     return "args are empty!"
>>>>   }
>>>>   var s string
>>>>   if len(args) ==1{
>>>>     out, er := exec.Command(args[0]).CombinedOutput()
>>>>     s = er.Error()+string(out)
>>>>   }else{
>>>>     out, er := exec.Command(args[0],args[1:]...).CombinedOutput()
>>>>     s = er.Error()+string(out)
>>>>     fmt.Println(s)
>>>>   }
>>>>   return s
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> So is my analysis correct? I have not seen s printed yet, because s
>>>> shall include "<nil>" at the beginning. I am using go1.18. If the cause is
>>>> util package cannot access a variable in conf, is it possible to walk
>>>> around by a deepcopy of the string array (which will be in package main)?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>
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