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Completion of error handling

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring <at> web.de>
Cc: 11058-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11058: Completion of error handling
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:18:16 -0600

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On 03/22/2012 05:13 AM, Markus Elfring wrote:
>> Not if it is a maintenance nightmare.
> 
> How do you think about to ecapsulate error detection as reusable aspects?

Submit a patch, and we'll evaluate it.

>> You're welcome to submit patches, and we will evaluate them on their
>> merits, if you think the current code base is wrong.
> 
> How are the chances to cooperate with a tool like "AspectC++"?

Coreutils is written in C, not C++, so I'm not sure how a tool like
AspectC++ would be usable.  But without knowing the tool, and without a
patch showing how the tool might be useful, I can't offer any further
opinion.  The current code base doesn't bother me, so the burden is now
on you to demonstrate that refactoring the code base to work with a new
tool has a payoff of easier maintenance (that is, that such a tool could
avoid errors by making auditing easier, provided we abide by the
guidelines expected by such a tool).

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Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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