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Re: Side-by-side configuration is incorrect reported as permission denied
On Aug 13 10:24, Herbert Stocker wrote:
> There is no need for the 'no', i'd suggest ELIBBAD.
Not bad, either. So we have ELIBACC, ELIBBADD, and ENOPKG as
suggestions.
> (And to bring back to memory, i'd also suggest to add EFAIL be added)
Here's a clear "no". EFAIL is not a useful error message. It's not
even slightly wrong, like EACCES in this case might be, it's entirely
lacking information. What's the accompanying error message? "Something
failed"? "An error occured, but I have no idea what"?
This reminds me of the old awk, which apparently only knew two error
messages:
awk: syntax error near line x
awk: bailing out near line x
In which scenario would such an EFAIL be really useful, which wouldn't
be better covered by an error code which contains at least *some*
information about the cause?
Corinna
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