ignore certain failures (-e/-z options)

Paul Chaignon paul.chaignon at gmail.com
Fri Jun 28 14:36:15 UTC 2019


Hi Marty,

There might be a way to implement a -e status=failed:!EAGAIN, but I'd
rather see this implemented in a different patchset that the ongoing one.
Are you planning to work on such an option?

Paul

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 03:55:48PM -0400, marty leisner wrote:
> I'm glad to see work on -z failures  ( I started this in 2002).
> 
> I'm again facing the need for these -- what I need is to ignore certain
> "good" errnos (like EAGAIN)  -- this has to do with
> systems which are polling be able to see "failures" from "failed polls"
> (the failed polls generally overwhelm real failures/good results)
> 
> What I was thinking is a way to have a "list of failures to ignore"
> (primarily EAGAIN).
> 
> marty

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