rsync - Nov 2005 - [Bug 3245] New: error messages not precise enough

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3245

           Summary: error messages not precise enough
           Product: rsync
           Version: 2.6.6
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: core
        AssignedTo: wayned@samba.org
        ReportedBy: dan1@edenpics.com
         QAContact: rsync-qa@samba.org


Generally speaking, it seems that the structure to report an error is badly 
implemented, and makes the error messages not clear enough.
For example, we might get a Code 23 error, but don't know anything about it.
This makes misconfigurations difficult to find out and makes the mailing list 
far too buzy providing support to all users who don't know about that or
this
problem.

I think that the code should be a bit rewritten as for the output of the 
messages. Normally we can know if there was a memory problem, a disk problem, 
a file that was missing when doing the copy (and which one) or anything else 
and it would be very helpful to print that out to the user. Also, one 
interesting thing would be to assert errors in the code itself so that we 
could know exactly where in the code the problem happened. The current code 
line report normally just specifies the end of a main procedure merely that 
the exact place of the error.

Regards,
Daniel

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