[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovs-vsctl: add caller information by appending comment

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Mon Jan 4 18:18:25 UTC 2016


On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 09:36:34AM -0800, Ansis Atteka wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> > I think maybe you misinterpreted what I meant when I said "every
> > caller".  When I said that, I meant "every program that invokes
> > ovs-vsctl", not the entire call stack.
> 
> William came to me to discuss this approach, If we both understood it
> correctly, then it would be impossible to get the LINE number with it,
> right?

Yes.

> Nevertheless, it would make comment generation simpler at expense of
> printing only the parent process.

It's a tradeoff.  I don't know the correct one.  I do know that
sometimes it would have been useful, during debugging, to know what
program invoked ovs-vsctl.



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