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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directori
From: |
Tom Lord |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Apr 2004 07:44:01 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Aaron Bentley <address@hidden>
> 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?
I misread your format string and didn't notice it included a %s for `file'.
> > 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)".
True.
> 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.
Sure, that's fine.
> I think we're stalemated.
No, it only looks that way because I misread your format string.
In fact, it's just the opposite. We've reached agreement.
Thanks for your patience.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Robin Green, 2004/04/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Aaron Bentley, 2004/04/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Tom Lord, 2004/04/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Aaron Bentley, 2004/04/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Tom Lord, 2004/04/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Aaron Bentley, 2004/04/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Tom Lord, 2004/04/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Aaron Bentley, 2004/04/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Tom Lord, 2004/04/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Aaron Bentley, 2004/04/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories,
Tom Lord <=
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Nikolai Weibull, 2004/04/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Andrew Suffield, 2004/04/26
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Nikolai Weibull, 2004/04/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Andrew Suffield, 2004/04/26
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Nikolai Weibull, 2004/04/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Andrew Suffield, 2004/04/27
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: Re: Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Nikolai Weibull, 2004/04/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Matthieu Moy, 2004/04/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Michael Poole, 2004/04/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Andrew Suffield, 2004/04/27