From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: glob qualifier '-' doesn't work correctly on dangling symlinks
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 01:07:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200412230737.GA1831017@zira.vinc17.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c3eab8cfe42c8579db652d05836a0c8a1976ee17.camel@ntlworld.com>
On 2020-04-12 16:49:45 +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> Right, you're saying we don't know the reason it failed without looking
> explicitly at the error, and should be clear about that... how about...
>
> item(tt(-))(
> toggles between making the qualifiers work on symbolic links (the
> default) and the files they point to, if any; any symbolic link for
> whose target the `tt(stat)' system call fails (whatever the cause of the
> failure) is treated as a file in its own right
> )
OK.
> I don't think we necessarily tell the reason (as opposed to the error code)
> can we? EPERM might refer to a surrounding directory?
There's no EPERM. Did you mean EACCES?
[EACCES]
Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/stat.html
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-12 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-11 15:15 Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-11 17:34 ` Stephane Chazelas
2020-04-11 19:17 ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-11 20:37 ` Stephane Chazelas
2020-04-11 23:48 ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-12 1:21 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-04-12 2:17 ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-12 7:09 ` Stephane Chazelas
2020-04-12 14:25 ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-12 17:34 ` Stephane Chazelas
2020-04-12 23:38 ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-13 14:22 ` Stephane Chazelas
2020-04-13 15:00 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-04-13 21:41 ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-14 6:18 ` Stephane Chazelas
2020-04-14 12:02 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-04-14 12:38 ` Stephane Chazelas
2020-04-15 0:44 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-04-15 9:17 ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-14 17:59 ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-12 12:48 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-04-12 14:31 ` Vincent Lefevre
2020-04-12 15:49 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-04-12 23:07 ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
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