Re: [rdiff-backup-users] FW: Bug#252664: rdiff-backup: gives truckloads of exception tracebacks

[Marc Haber]

On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 04:30:54PM -0400, Ben Escoto wrote:
> > From: Marc Haber <address@hidden>
> > Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 18:10:09 +0200
> > 
> > |Processing changed file proc/9989/task/9989/attr/fscreate
> > |Exception '[Errno 22] Invalid argument' raised of class 
> > 'exceptions.IOError':
> ...
> > |UpdateError proc/9989/task/9989/attr/fscreate [Errno 22] Invalid argument
> > 
> > Having a backup program raising unhandled exceptions is quite
> > disturbing. Please consider properly handling this case.
> 
> The output you pasted seems to indicate rdiff-backup was handling the
> exceptions.  That "UpdateError" message comes from rdiff-backup.  In
> general if there is a unhandled exception in python the program exits
> immediately.

A user not familiar with python might be disturbed by the output the
exception handler gives. I'd rather see that output hidden and
replaced by an application dependent error message or warning.

But that's a detail.

Greetings
Marc

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