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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>, Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
Cc: Aaron Merey <amerey@redhat.com>, elfutils-devel@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: patch 3/3 debuginfod client interruptability
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 09:24:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dfc13e12-7d4b-deea-346b-ca3039aecac7@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191118025008.GA29713@redhat.com>

On 11/18/19 2:50 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>> Attached is a variant that adds debuginfod_begin and debuginfo_end
>> (names matching elf/dwarf_begin/end) and adds a debuginfod_client
>> handle to each other function.

Thanks much for doing this!

> 
> Sure, if you like.  Would you be sympathetic to supporting a
> client=NULL entrypoint to the lookup functions, ergo no begin/end, for
> applications that don't want a progressfn callback?  That way the
> simple case looks simple.

I'm not sure that's a good idea.  Creating/destroying the client object
doesn't seem onerous to me.  It'd mask out bugs where the client pointer
becomes NULL by mistake.  As the API evolves, it'll very likely gain more
state.  Seems simpler to me that way from a documentation and maintenance
perspective, that with having everyone use the API in the same way.
My 2c.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-18  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-28 19:04 patch 0/2 debuginfod submission Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-10-28 19:06 ` patch 1/2 debuginfod client Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-10-28 19:09   ` patch 2/2 debuginfod server etc Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-04 21:48     ` patch 3/3 debuginfod client interruptability Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-07  9:07       ` patch 4 debuginfod: symlink following mode Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-07  9:08         ` patch 5 debuginfod: prometheus metrics Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-15 17:26           ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-15 17:58             ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-18 16:20               ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-18 16:48                 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-19 16:13                   ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-15 16:49         ` patch 4 debuginfod: symlink following mode Mark Wielaard
2019-11-15 18:31           ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-18 16:27             ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-15 16:16       ` patch 3/3 debuginfod client interruptability Mark Wielaard
2019-11-15 17:03         ` Aaron Merey
2019-11-15 17:35           ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-15 18:14             ` Pedro Alves
2019-11-17 23:44               ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-18  2:50                 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-18  9:24                   ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2019-11-19 12:58                   ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-13 17:22     ` patch 2/2 debuginfod server etc Mark Wielaard
2019-11-14 11:54       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-16  1:31         ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-13 23:19     ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-14 12:30       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-18 14:17         ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-18 18:41           ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-19 15:41             ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-19 16:13               ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-19 20:11                 ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-19 21:15                   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-20 11:53                     ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-20 12:29                       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-21 14:16                       ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-21 15:40                         ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-21 16:01                           ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-21 15:58                         ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-21 16:37                           ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-21 17:18                             ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-21 20:42                               ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-22 12:08                                 ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-14 20:45     ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-15 11:03       ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-15 21:00       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-18 15:01         ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-15 14:40     ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-15 19:54       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-18 15:31         ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-18 15:49           ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-12 11:12   ` patch 1/2 debuginfod client Mark Wielaard
2019-11-12 15:14     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-12 21:59       ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-14  0:33         ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-15 21:33       ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-12 21:25   ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-13 23:25     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-16  0:46       ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-16 18:53         ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-18 17:17           ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-18 20:33             ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-19 15:57               ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-19 16:20                 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-19 20:16                   ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-19 21:22                     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-20 12:50                       ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-20 13:30                         ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-21 14:02                           ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-13 13:57   ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-14 11:24     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-11-16  0:52       ` Mark Wielaard
2019-11-16  2:28         ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-10-30 11:04 ` patch 0/2 debuginfod submission Mark Wielaard
2019-10-30 13:40   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-10-30 14:12     ` Mark Wielaard
2019-10-30 18:11       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2019-10-31 11:18         ` Mark Wielaard

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