Quoting Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>:
> On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 11:33 +0200, Sampo Savolainen wrote:
> > Quoting Clemens Ladisch <clemens@email-addr-hidden>:
> >
> > > Lee A. Azzarello wrote:
> > > > ----- Clemens Ladisch <clemens@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > > > cannot submit datapipe for urb 4, err = -28
> > >
> > > 28 = ENOSPC (not enough bandwidth)
> >
> > Why doesn't jack tell the user this, why did Clemens need to post on
> LAU to ask?
>
> These are standard, well known error codes,
> see /usr/include/linux/errno.h
So, instead of interpreting them to users the software should say: "learn C
headers and read errno.h?". Gah.
Good software tells the users what's really wrong and directs the user in
how to fix the issue. This leads to happier users and less repeated "why
doesn't this work" questions on mailing lists, irc, personal email, etc.
Sampo
Received on Fri Mar 3 12:15:19 2006
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