Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >> Should mkdir have to perform an additional lstat so that >> it can include the type of the preexisting file system "object" >> when the mkdir functions fails with EEXIST? > > I'd welcome this. When error condition occures, it's a perfect place to > provide more information. The information is not necessarily displayed > to user, but stored to a log file, so when person looks at the logs > later, he can get detailled view of the problem. ...
Adding post-failure code to perform file system operations in order to give better diagnostics is not something to do lightly. I've done it for a few cases in coreutils, but only to avoid particularly misleading diagnostics. Sorry. It's not justified in this case. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
