Re: [PATCH] libdwfl: dwfl_standard_argp should not fail when not able to attach Dwfl.

[Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>]

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On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 15:21 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> As pointed out in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107654
> commit 191080 introduced a thinko that caused dwfl_standard_argp
> to fail if the Dwfl couldn't be attached. Instead of generating a warning
> as the comment intended, the failure would be fatal. But even warning
> about dwfl_core_file_attach () or dwfl_linux_proc_attach () failing
> would be a mistake. The caller/user might not be interested in such
> a non-fatal issue. So just ignore if the call failed for whatever reason.
> If the caller is interested in warning up front about this issue, then
> dwfl_pid () should be called to check the Dwfl is attached. Things should
> work just fine for anything that doesn't call any of the dwfl_state related
> functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>
> ---
>  libdwfl/ChangeLog  |    5 +++++
>  libdwfl/argp-std.c |   13 +++++--------
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

I pushed this patch and the followup "libdwfl: Record dwfl_attach_state
error and return it on failure." patch to master now.

Cheers,

Mark