On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 at 10:43, Tom Horsley horsley1953@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 08:33:54 -0600 Ian Pilcher wrote:
I stand by my position that NFS mount errors are almost sadistically useless.
Not enough scope. Almost all linux errors are sadistically useless :-).
At some point, RFC's need to address error reporting and diagnostics. There is also Java, which spews out 10^2 lines of tracing data with nothing to highlight the line that has the key to the problem.
I suspect the compiler work was driven by academia wanting to reduce the amount of time wasted in student training to deal with useless error messages.
With much of linux development being done by companies that sell support, better error reporting would make it easier for organizations to decide they don't need to pay for support.