Re: [PATCH 4/6] perf report: hint .perfconfig error when invalid sorting key

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 09:34:37AM -0700, David Carrillo-Cisneros escreveu:
> > On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 11:49:17PM -0700, David Carrillo-Cisneros wrote:
> >> My fat-fingering of sort keys in .perfconfig was a common cause of
> >> perf report silently terminating without apparent error.
> >>
> >> This was because 1) error in setup_sorting in cmd_report was ignored
> >> and 2) no message was log in UI browser that would prevent UI from
> >> exit before user prompt. Fix both.
> >
> > there's UI init ahead of this code.. I had to move it
> > below your code to spot any error message
> >
> > there's other errors further on.. perhaps we should move it even further ;-)
> > or cancel the ui before the error is printed
> 
> Probably canceling ui on error is the more robust way to go. I will
> look into it.

So I'll wait for a v2 for this specific patch.