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From: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
To: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com>, Libc-help <libc-help@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: nonspecific error message
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 13:58:52 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3950c909-49c5-bf8c-9695-8eee43f4b667@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABrM6w=7YChw_+uCL6stdk50+GSShk7ExGTRq4Y3SxbRSoFDYw@mail.gmail.com>



On 26/03/2021 18:28, Peng Yu via Libc-help wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For renameat2, if only one file is missing, it will perror will print
> "No such file or directory". But this error message is not sufficient
> to determine which file is missing.
> 
> How to detail with this kind of case when the error message is
> nonspecific? Should the error be ignored altogether and use some
> customized error message? Or there is some better convention for this
> kind of case?
> 

Do you mean once you remove the renameat2.c implementation from source
tree?

      reply	other threads:[~2021-03-29 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-26 21:28 Peng Yu
2021-03-29 16:58 ` Adhemerval Zanella [this message]

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