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Subject: Re: [9front] Re: [PATCH] make exportfs give "standard" error for file does exist
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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.