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Re: -e and permission denied


From: victor
Subject: Re: -e and permission denied
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 04:48:59 -0700 (PDT)
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On Friday, October 4, 2013 3:41:58 PM UTC+4, Eric Blake wrote:
> If you care about the difference between ENOENT and EPERM, then write
> your program in C or other language, not shell.  There is no way for the
> shell to tell you what errno the OS returned.

I was talking only about documentation change (so people might decide that they 
need distinct ENOENT and EPERM in their particular case)

> The shell is not going to
> change just because of your request.

Of course, I understand. That was just proposal. If BASH maintainers still 
think current documentation is ok, I won't insist.


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