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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?

-- 
Regards,
Peng