[PATCH] libbb: More informative "short write" error
Kang-Che Sung
explorer09 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 6 02:04:36 UTC 2016
On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 5:30 AM, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 10:46 PM, Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> isn't "short write" redundant?
>
> No, it is not: it says that some bytes were written.
> As opposed to the situation when no bytes were written,
> error happened right away.
Um, excuse me, but may I suggest a more informative message than "short write"?
"Short write" is a little bit unclear.
How about saying "data partially written"?
Or "partial data" or "partially done" for short.
Thank you.
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