Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] block: Fix error report for wrong file format

[Eric Blake]

On 01/17/2013 01:45 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> These patches improve the error report if the file format was
> specified explicitly (example: -drive file=myfile,format=qcow2)
> and the given format does not match the real format.
> 
> They fix those bugs:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556482
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1090600
> 
> Changes in v2:
> 
> * Use error code EMEDIUMTYPE instead of inventing a new one.

Alas, EMEDIUMTYPE is non-standard, and doesn't exist outside of Linux.
If you are providing fallbacks for half the platforms because you don't
want to use a standard errno value, then why not go all the way and use
a fallback for all platforms.

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