Re: [Monotone-devel] Connection timeout error message misleading

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 08:12:11PM -0600, Dean Kusler wrote:
> Now, I think that "Connection timed out" really isn't "almost certainly a 
> bug in monotone". Should we detect certain errors like that and not 
> display the "almost certainly a bug" message for them?

Yep.  In this case the bug is that we don't properly handle network
errors in netsync, so IIUC they get caught by the generic error
handler and treated as unexpected exceptions.

Patches welcome, it's purely cosmetic so no-one's gotten around to it
yet...

-- Nathaniel

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