Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Errno listing

[Andrew Ferguson]

Greg,

Rdiff-backup should be handling most of these situations for you,  
right? Are you trying to document errno's that rdiff-backup reports,  
but recovers from, so that users won't be alarmed?

A list of most errors which rdiff-backup handles can be found in:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/rdiff-backup/rdiff_backup/robust.py?root=rdiff-backup&view=markup

Look in the catch_error() function. The errno's are referred to by  
their symbolic names, eg, EPERM, ENOENT, etc.

determining which number they refer to is trickier, since Windows and  
POSIX use different numbers, and even on POSIX, the higher numbers can  
be different. On a Mac OS X system, you look /usr/include/sys/ernno.h  
On a Linux system, you look in /usr/include/asm-generic/errno-bash.h  
and /usr/include/asm-generic/errno.h


best of luck,

Andrew


On Mar 23, 2009, at 2:01 PM, address@hidden wrote:

> I'm wanting to handle errno's in my bash script. I also want to add
> to the wiki, esp as it relates to Windows/cygwin.
>
> But other than the trial-and-error method, I can't find any
> documentation on the "errno" listings.
>
> What other common errors should I document as "regular" errors, or
> that occur with some regularity?
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> Since most of my install base is Windows/cygwin, I'm documenting  
> these most
> intensely.
>
> ---
>
> Here's what I currently have...
> [Errno 13]
> Often seen with open PST files.
> [However, the file name doesn't appear on the same line as "errno" so
> I have to get the prior line that shows the actual file name we are
> having a problem with...]
>
> [Errno 16]
> Open files. (But not PST's - why these are different, I'm not
> sure...) [The file name IS on the same line here...]
>
> Are there others you have seen that I should document, or handle
> "specially?"
>
>
> TIA
> Greg
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