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Making EPERM friendlier

Making EPERM friendlier

Posted Jan 20, 2013 8:17 UTC (Sun) by geofft (subscriber, #59789)
In reply to: Making EPERM friendlier by josh
Parent article: Making EPERM friendlier

Fedora solves (-ish) this with a patch to bash to figure out if that's the cause of the ENOENT and give you a better error message. Other distros should pick up the patch.


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Making EPERM friendlier

Posted Jan 21, 2013 9:36 UTC (Mon) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

... or Fedora could send the patch upstream?

Making EPERM friendlier

Posted Jan 21, 2013 9:49 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Upstream knows and seems reluctant IIRC

Making EPERM friendlier

Posted Jan 21, 2013 10:49 UTC (Mon) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link]

I think they're trying, but doing something less hackish, not in bash but at a lower level. But they're mostly at RFC stage at the moment (see article above...)

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