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From: C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>
Date: Thu,  3 Jun 2004 18:15:38 +0100
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: Error reporting (Was: [9fans] GNU Make)
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>>[nonexistent(e)] is not good enough.

for the particular error you described: a clone file can't be opened
because an underlying file didn't exist (that was what the message said),
i'd have said it was as good as any.

things like nonexistent tend to be used by programs searching
for files, so i don't see the problem in that application.
even if they are hunting for clone files, it would work, because
the name mumble/clone will exist; it will fail on open.

all i said was your example didn't seem a good one.
i didn't say you couldn't produce a better one, just that you hadn't yet.