[master] 5d8a6c001 For CLI commands forwarded indirectly to the worker (via mgt_cli_askchild() as opposed to directly through mcf_askchild()), a truncated CLI response is not a failure.

[Dridi Boukelmoune]

On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 10:34 AM Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
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> In message <CABoVN9Dv61ER-xJmf=CBHMRH0RJkP77HAbc9Lx9dzTBuG9HmMQ at mail.gmail.com>
> , Dridi Boukelmoune writes:
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> >As explained in [3092] there is more to 3038, and in particular commands
> >going through VTE don't truncate as documented [*] in the varnishd manual:
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> One of the reasons our issues fail to resolve is that the start
> wandering all over the place and I've had it with that.
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> Reading through ever longer sagas to try to divine if a given issue
> can be closed or not is not productive use of anybodys time.
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> It is painfully obvious in bug-washes, that the longer the issue
> comments, the less people are willing to engage and try to close,
> and no wonder!
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> 3038 was a bug in vcl.list, that problem is solved and the ticket is closed.
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> If there are seperate issues in VTE, then by all means open a ticket
> on that *AND ONLY THAT* so that we can close it when that issue is solved.

Like I said, we need to spend more brain cycles in this area.

https://github.com/varnishcache/varnish-cache/issues/3148

Dridi