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Re: File sharing over virtio-9p



On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 12:56:43 +0900, Ryota Ozaki wrote:

> > @@ -72,7 +74,7 @@ serverconnect(const char *addr, unsigned short port)
> > [...]
> > +           err(1, "setsockopt(SO_NOSIGPIPE)");
> >
> > I'd just trim it down to "SO_NOSIGPIPE".
> >
> > +        err(1, "open(%s)", path);
> >
> > Ditto.  Just make it "%s".
> 
> I prefer more informative messages.  Why do you want to trim them?

Consider that from the user perspective.  As a developer it's tempting
to dump the implementation details, but which of the following is more
readable to the user:

$ ls foo
ls: foo: No such file or directory

or 

$ ls foo
ls: stat(foo): No such file or directory


-uwe


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