On Mon 18-06-07 06:12:54, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:55 +0200, holzheu wrote:
> > Hi Gerrit,
> >
> > The common thing of your and our approach is, that we need an ID to
> > identify a message either by:
>
>
> Maybe I am missing something big, but why is an ID needed?
> The message IS the ID right? That's the only thing that is robust
> against code moving about....
I think the problem is messages contain device numbers, and all similar
kind of data. So what you'd really like is to use >format string< as ID.
But that is not easily accessible for the user, so you'd have to print it
with each message. And that's ... ugly IMHO.
> (And yes I am aware that very occasionally there might be a duplicate
> message that REALLY is different, but I suspect that that is so
> incredibly rare that it's just simpler to reword one of the two in such
> case)
Honza
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Jan Kara <[email protected]>
SuSE CR Labs
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