Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Improve error reporting on file access

[Mark McLoughlin]

On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 09:42 -0500, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> Author: Justin M. Forbes <address@hidden>
> Date:   Thu Oct 1 09:34:56 2009 -0500
> 
>     Improve error reporting on file access
>     
>     By making the error reporting include strerror(errno), it gives the user
>     a bit more indication as to why qemu failed.  This is particularly
>     important for people running qemu as a non root user.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Justin M. Forbes <address@hidden>

Certainly looks sensible to me

Not having this is hurting us in Fedora 12 because we've started running
qemu as an unprivileged user and people are having a hard time figuring
out the various errors they're seeing caused by the change. This should
help them.

Only concern is that errno might not be getting propagated correctly by
some of these functions, but we can fix that later if so.

Cheers,
Mark.