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From: | Aaron Bentley |
Subject: | Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories |
Date: | Mon, 26 Apr 2004 08:12:21 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 |
Tom Lord wrote:
> "Error encountered checking for nested project trees in %s:\n%s > accessing %s\n", directory, errno_to_string (errn), file); That error message is misleading to experts. How about:
I must not be understanding, because I don't see how experts can be mislead by that. Maybe the context isn't interesting for someone who knows Arch well, but
"Permission denied accessing foo/{arch}." can't be misleading can it?
Error checking for existence of: foo/{arch} (from lstat): Permission denied (13)
If you want to be really factual, you should say "(from vu_lstat)".A message like that is a good explanation of what caused the program to stop, but providing a bit of context about *why* we were doing it is helpful to people who don't know Arch inside and out.
I think we're stalemated. I can't think of an alternative that isn't repeating my above message.
Aaron
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