Am 24.08.2012 20:07, schrieb malc: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, Peter Maydell wrote: > >> If the attempt to load the guest executable fails, print the >> error message as a string, not a number. This requires us to >> fix a couple of places in loader_exec() where we were returning >> -1 instead of a valid negative errno. >> >> The change allows us to drop the "Unknown binary format" message >> because the strerror-enhanced message is now a more self-explanatory >> "Error while loading $guest-binary: Exec format error". > > Double edged sword: > > a. Localized strings that is near impossible to map back to anything > useful > b. Codes whose meaning is overloaded beyond repair > > Sometimes sticking to plain numbers works better.
I ran into the same issue some time ago and was lucky to have pm215 on #qemu knowing what was causing this. A pure number (or number translated to E*) is not so telling. Could the diplomatic solution be to include the number in the error message? :) Andreas -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg
