cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_mount.c

[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:01:50AM -0600, Sergey Babkin wrote:

> >From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
> >On Wednesday 09 November 2005 09:30 am, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> >> On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:08:39PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >> +> In message <20051109140419.GD15580 at garage.freebsd.pl>, Pawel Jakub
> >> Dawidek writes: +>
> >> +>
> >> +> >In current world order you can decide based on LC_ALL/LANG, etc.
> >> +>
> >> +> Read my lips:  printf(9) and panic(9) are _never_ going to respect
> >> +> any environment variable.
> >>
> >> Printf(9) and panic(9) are for administrator, not for user.
> >> Anyway, let's stop here, as we're going nowhere.
> >
> >If you are going to provide l10n of these messages, you'll need to do it in 
> >userland somehow.  However, if you return strings that task becomes a bit 
> >harder.  I still prefer returning error data, not presentation, and letting 
> >something else (userland) take care of formatting error data and presenting 
> >it to the user.
> 
> Maybe it would make sense to split the error code and
> any extra data related to the error (for example,
> the pathname that caused it or any extra explanation).
> The error code would go into errno while only the 
> extra data would go into the string error. This 
> extra data won't need to be translaed anyway.

A like VMS?