Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts/analyse-9p-simpletrace.py: Add symbolic names for 9p operations.

[Harsh Bora]

On 11/09/2011 01:43 PM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> On Wed,  9 Nov 2011 11:55:51 +0530, Harsh Prateek Bora<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > Currently, we just print the numerical value of 9p operation identifier in
> > case of RERROR which is less meaningful for readability. Mapping 9p
> > operation ids to symbolic names provides a better tracelog:
> >
> >         RERROR (tag = 1 , id = TWALK , err = 2 )
> >         RERROR (tag = 1 , id = TUNLINKAT , err = 39 )
>
> It would be nice to map that err to a string. os.strerror(err) may be ?

makes sense, however os.strerror prints multi word text explaining the 
error and not just the symbolic word, hope its okay:

RERROR (tag = 1 , id = TWALK , err = No such file or directory )
RERROR (tag = 1 , id = TUNLINKAT , err = Directory not empty )

will update in v2.

> > This patch provides a dictionary of all possible 9p operation symbols mapped
> > to their numerical identifiers which are likely to be used in future at
> > various places in this script.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Harsh Prateek Bora<address@hidden>
> > ---
>
> -aneesh