Re: grep . /; echo $?

[Benno Schulenberg]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> writes:
> > (The message itself is a bit strange though: it doesn't sound
> > like an error.  "Cannot read a directory" would be better.)
>
> The message is just what strerror(EISDIR) returns, which has no
> information about the actual operation that failed.

But grep has this information: it knows what it was trying to do, so 
it could replace the standard message with something more specific.

Benno