#52555 - [RFC PATCH 0/3] Decentralized substitute distribution with ERIS

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Subject: Re: [bug#52555] [RFC PATCH v2 3/5] Add (guix eris).
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pukkamustard schreef op wo 02-02-2022 om 10:28 [+0000]:
> > pukkamustard schreef op di 25-01-2022 om 19:21 [+0000]:
> > > +(define (ipfs-daemon-alive?)
> > > +  "Attempt to connect to the IPFS daemon. Returns #t if the
> > > daemon is alive
> > > +and #f else."
> > > +  (with-exception-handler
> > > +      (const #f)
> > > +    (lambda _
> > > +      (let ((response _
> > > +                      (http-post (string-append (%ipfs-base-url)
> > > +                                               
> > > "/api/v0/version"))))
> > > +        (equal? 200 (response-code response))))
> > > +    #:unwind? #t))
> > 
> > This should preferably only be catching exceptions indicating that
> > the daemon is down (exceptions indicating 404s, or system-errors
> > indicating network errors, ...).
> 
> Yes, I guess it could be checked a bit finer. But at the end if an
> exception happens then the IPFS daemon is probably not reachable,
> right?
> If we don't care about the reason why it is not reachable then why
> bother with catching finer grained exceptions?

The exception could be caused by, say:

  * an unbound variable
  * wrong arity
  * type error
  * stack overflow
  * prompt tag does not exist in current environment
  * out of memory

Except for the last one, these causes are all bugs and hence shouldn't
be surpressed.  Granted, this is a bit unlikely since this use of
'http-post' is very simple, but it's far from impossible for
(web client) to have a bug.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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#52555 [RFC PATCH 0/3] Decentralized substitute distribution with ERIS