Re: [PATCH 36/38] vfs: Add a sample program for the new mount API [ver #10]

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> But once the string has been generated, it can now be thousands of
> different strings, and you can't just look them up from a table any
> more.
> 
> Real examples from David's patch-series:
> 
>                 errorf(fc, "%s: Lookup failure for '%s'",
>                        desc->name, param->key);
> 
>                 errorf(fc, "%s: Non-blockdev passed to '%s'",
>                        desc->name, param->key);
> 
> which means that by the time user space sees it, you can't just "look
> up the string". The string will have various random key names etc in
> it.
> 
> But the alternative to pass things as format strings and raw data, and
> having all the rules for a "good gettext interface" are worse. It gets
> very ugly very quickly.

Dunno. Could we pass it as "format string and data formatted as
_strings_"? That should be possible to deal with in userspace and not
too annoying for the kernel.

Userspace would then get something like
"e%s: Lookup failure for '%s'\0<desc->name>\0<param->key>\0" .

Best regards,
									Pavel
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