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

[tomas]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 07:50:04AM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
> 
>     > From: address@hidden
> 
>     > Nits about backticks and accents aside, it's still a good idea to
>     > delimit the filename (or any other string coming from outside).
> 
> I have a habit in tla code which may as well be promoted to "coding
> standard": [...]

>       unable to frob patch log (permission denied)
>           tree: /home/lord/wd/tla
>           log: tla--devo--1.1
> 
> That avoids the issue of whether to use ", `, or ' to delimit
> filenames, is easier to cut and paste, and tends to cope with
> longer filenames in messages better than most approaches.
> 
> strerr strings generally should go in parentheses, as shown, next to a
> more specific description of the error.

Makes sense. Still, you won't *see* trailing whitespaces,
at least on normal terminals. Hmmm.

(And a trailing whitespace *might* be the cause a file is not
found, yuck ;-)

Greetings
-- tomás