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Re: [Nano-devel] Checking permissions before opening file


From: Kamil Dudka
Subject: Re: [Nano-devel] Checking permissions before opening file
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 18:22:55 +0100
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On Wednesday 27 January 2016 17:52:24 Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016, at 21:48, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On 26 Jan 2016 21:03, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > > + if (errno == ENOENT)
> > > +     statusbar(_("Path '%s' does not exist"), parentdir);
> > > + else
> > > +     statusbar(_("Path '%s': %s"), parentdir, strerror(errno));
> > 
> > why is this needed ?  the strerror() for ENOENT is already:
> >     No such file or directory
> 
> I don't like the words "No such *file*..."  It's not supposed to be
> a file, it /must/ be a directory.  That's why I split out that one
> case, to give a clearer error message.

"No such file or directory" sounds clear to me.  Moreover, the other error 
message does not say whether the path is a directory or not.  So it hardly 
classifies as "a clearer error message" in my view.

Kamil



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