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Subject: Re: Error reporting (Was: [9fans] GNU Make)
Date: Thu,  3 Jun 2004 16:17:03 +0100
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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> i think i might have used strstr.
> ok, i suppose you might have a file with 'does not exist' in its name,

it's not this.

it's when you have error messages that contain other
error messages, e.g.

cannot allocate resource: '/x/y' does not exist

here the relevant error message is "cannot allocate resource".
the rest is useful for tracking down the problem (and hence
is worth including), but isn't directly relevant to a program
interested in finding out the primary meaning of the error message.