Re: grep . /; echo $?

[Andreas Schwab]

Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

All it would need to do is add some descriptive comment, like "cannot read
%s:", where %s substitutes the file name, before the errno text.

Andreas.

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