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Message-ID: <20180730181637.GC2416@amd>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 20:16:37 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 36/38] vfs: Add a sample program for the new mount API
[ver #10]
On Mon 2018-07-30 11:08:42, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 04:31:04PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Well, I guess errors should have numbers, and catalog explaining what
> > error means what. That way userspace can translate, and it is what we
> > do with errno.
> >
> > I believe numbers are best. If you hate numbers, you can still use
> > strings, as long as you can enumerate them in docs (but it will be
> > strange design).
>
> Have you looked at how gettext() works? It uses the english text as
> a search string and replaces it with the localised string. This is
> a very common design!
Yes, and it needs ("foo %s %d", "bar", 3) as base. Not ("foo bar 3").
Pavel
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