[OpenAFS-devel] Patch to add much more diagnostics to vos move when run with -verbose

[Russ Allbery]

Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> writes:
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Nathan Neulinger wrote:

>> Also removes the "WARNING" from "WARNING : removing backup volume on
>> source", which really doesn't need to be a warning since it's
>> completely expected, and you can't back out at that point any way.

> Please don't go around making gratuitous changes to messages.  There are
> people and programs which depend on the output format of various AFS
> commands, and changing that format can break them.  So make sure you
> have a _good_ reason before you change something like that.

With all due respect to the people concerned with that sort of thing, I
think it's pretty unreasonable to never change the output of any command
to make it more user-friendly because people are doing things that they
should never have had to do in the first place.

We badly need a programmatic interface to AFS operations, and then at that
point I (even being one of the people with scripts with that issue) think
people should feel free to change the output of the commands all they
want.  Some of the output badly needs to be fixed, and I don't want to see
the user interface and user-friendliness be stalled by old, evil hacks
that we all wrote back in the days when there was no better alternative.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>