Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories

[Aaron Bentley]

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