From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Re: [PATCH] make exportfs give "standard" error for file does exist
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 09:14:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <688867C744F9A4467A8DF4CD4CC449C6@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZL9nIWzMtS9cWNeC@alice>
Quoth Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>:
> ori@eigenstate.org once said:
> > note, the problem with strstr is that walking to a file named
> > 'file does not exist' may confuse the caller; this is why I
> > would like to move to a convention where the "well known" error
> > is at a well known location.
>
> 1. Spaces in file names are suspect to begin with.
>
> 2. If you name a file "file does not exist", you deserve
> the consequences.
>
I don't need to name a file that; I just need to try walking to it.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-25 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-23 21:07 [9front] " Jacob Moody
2023-07-23 22:03 ` Stuart Morrow
2023-07-23 22:11 ` Jacob Moody
2023-07-23 22:24 ` Stuart Morrow
2023-07-24 0:19 ` Jacob Moody
2023-07-24 21:20 ` Stuart Morrow
2023-07-24 22:33 ` Jacob Moody
2023-07-24 0:07 ` Michael Forney
2023-07-24 0:56 ` Jacob Moody
2023-07-24 2:12 ` ori
2023-07-24 8:13 ` hiro
2023-07-24 23:37 ` Jacob Moody
2023-07-24 23:54 ` ori
2023-07-24 0:51 ` [9front] " Anthony Martin
2023-07-24 1:03 ` Jacob Moody
2023-07-24 4:13 ` Anthony Martin
2023-07-24 4:20 ` ori
2023-07-25 6:09 ` Anthony Martin
2023-07-25 8:26 ` hiro
2023-07-25 13:14 ` ori [this message]
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