* where Error **errp is a parameter, by convention the last one.
*
* Pass an existing error to the caller with the message modified:
+ * error_propagate_prepend(errp, err);
+ *
+ * Avoid
* error_propagate(errp, err);
* error_prepend(errp, "Could not frobnicate '%s': ", name);
+ * because this fails to prepend when @errp is &error_fatal.
*
* Create a new error and pass it to the caller:
* error_setg(errp, "situation normal, all fouled up");
#ifndef ERROR_H
#define ERROR_H
-#include "qapi-types.h"
+#include "qapi/qapi-types-common.h"
/*
* Overall category of an error.
*/
void error_propagate(Error **dst_errp, Error *local_err);
+
+/*
+ * Propagate error object (if any) with some text prepended.
+ * Behaves like
+ * error_prepend(&local_err, fmt, ...);
+ * error_propagate(dst_errp, local_err);
+ */
+void error_propagate_prepend(Error **dst_errp, Error *local_err,
+ const char *fmt, ...);
+
/*
* Prepend some text to @errp's human-readable error message.
* The text is made by formatting @fmt, @ap like vprintf().