Jonny Grant wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > The wording is taken directly from perror() and related library calls, > > as translated for your locale. > > Yes, it's a known limitation of POSIX that it uses a shared error code for > both files and directors, ENOENT. Which without programmers handling and > checking the stat() flags, means the error isn't completely clear in the > case where a file or dir does exist.
I don't see how POSIX is involved in this. Blaming POSIX is a complete non-sequitur here. > I imagine we have spoken already for longer about this, than it would have > been to fix it. I see no bug to fix here. However I fear that trying to fix an imaginary one would introduce a bug here. Bob
