Pedraig wrote:
> Wensong Zhang wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Padraig Brady wrote:
> >
> >>This 1 line patch is useful for me and I don't think it
> >>will break anything. It's against 0.8.2 and basically
> >>returns a specific error code from ipvsadm.
> >
> > ipvsadm has already printed error message of errno, I don't see why return
> > error instead of -1, when error happens.
>
> Printing the error code is only good for humans.
> If you want to programattically control ipvsadm
> you need the error code returned.
I have to agree. I am a fan of meaningful error codes, and if the one
line patch doesn't break anything, I am in favor of it. It beats trying
to parse text output with perl or grep trying to figure out what happened.
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John Cronin
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