On 04/19/2018 01:45 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > perror() is defined to fprintf(stderr,...). HACKING says > fprintf(stderr,...) is wrong. So perror() is too. > > Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com> > CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> > CC: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> > CC: Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> > CC: Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> > CC: Alistair Francis <alistair.fran...@xilinx.com> > --- > v7: New patch > --- > os-posix.c | 8 ++++---- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/os-posix.c b/os-posix.c > index d4cf466..0108028 100644 > --- a/os-posix.c > +++ b/os-posix.c > @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ void os_set_proc_name(const char *s) > /* Could rewrite argv[0] too, but that's a bit more complicated. > This simple way is enough for `top'. */ > if (prctl(PR_SET_NAME, name)) { > - perror("unable to change process name"); > + error_report("unable to change process name: %s", strerror(errno)); > exit(1); > } > #else > @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ static void change_root(void) > exit(1); > } > if (chdir("/")) { > - perror("not able to chdir to /"); > + error_report("not able to chdir to /: %s", strerror(errno)); > exit(1); > } > } > @@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ void os_setup_post(void) > > if (daemonize) { > if (chdir("/")) { > - perror("not able to chdir to /"); > + error_report("not able to chdir to /: %s", strerror(errno)); > exit(1); > } > TFR(fd = qemu_open("/dev/null", O_RDWR)); > @@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ int os_mlock(void) > > ret = mlockall(MCL_CURRENT | MCL_FUTURE); > if (ret < 0) { > - perror("mlockall"); > + error_report("mlockall: %s", strerror(errno)); > } > > return ret;
Thinking loudly, maybe we can refactor as error_report_errno(const char *desc)... Anyway: Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4...@amsat.org>