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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-io: Return non-zero exit code on failure


From: Fam Zheng
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-io: Return non-zero exit code on failure
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:01:48 +0800
User-agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04)

On Wed, 01/11 15:51, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 01/11/2017 12:24 PM, Nir Soffer wrote:
> > From: Nir Soffer <address@hidden>
> > 
> > The result of openfile was not checked, leading to failure deep in the
> > actual command with confusing error message, and exiting with exit code 0.
> > 
> > Here is one example - trying to read a pattern from an invalid chain:
> > 
> >     $ qemu-io -c 'read -P 1 0 1024' top.qcow2; echo $?
> 
> As written, you have to guess some context about how top.qcow2 was
> created.  The example can be made a bit more reproducible with:
> 
> $ : > file
> $ qemu-io -f qcow2 -c ... file

Nir, thank you for the fix. Could you also add a regression test in
tests/qemu-iotests?

Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <address@hidden>

> 
> >     can't open device top.qcow2: Could not open backing file: Image is not 
> > in qcow2 format
> >     no file open, try 'help open'
> >     0
> > 
> > With this patch, we fail earlier with exit code 1:
> > 
> >     $ ./qemu-io -c 'read -P 1 0 1024' top.qcow2; echo $?
> >     can't open device top.qcow2: Could not open backing file: Image is not
> >     in qcow2 format
> >     1
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  qemu-io.c | 8 ++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> Whether or not the commit message is improved,
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>



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