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Re: [setup PATCH] Remove pointless, worrying log message


On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 08:15:17PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>Robert Collins wrote:
>> On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 02:25, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> 
>>> Code calls compress_bz::error() to ask *whether* an error has
>>> occurred. It is silly and scare-mongering to print
>>> "compress_bz::error called" to the log in this case.
>>> 
>>> Ok to commit?
>> 
>> No. We really need to implement the error checking - thats why it's
>> there and verbose. There was a large fixup of such messages ~ 6 months
>> back - and the same discussion on this particular one.
>
>Wouldn't a /* FIXME: */ be more appropriate here?
>
>Or, is the idea to annoy yourself into fixing the lack of error checking?

And not just "yourself", either.  It hass worryied scores of other people.
A FIXME sounds better to me.  Either that or add a "don't worry about
this" to the message.

cgf


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