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From: Ulrich Drepper on 29 Mar 2010 11:00
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 07:40, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> File not found is a very common error message with a pretty will
> understood meaning. Overloading it in this way causes confusion.

Again and again: this is not the message the user should ever see. On
its own. Once you precede it with the message about the dynamic
linker not being found and the name the ENOENT string is the right
one.
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From: Andreas Schwab on 29 Mar 2010 12:10
Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek(a)gmail.com> writes:

> File not found is a very common error message with a pretty will
> understood meaning.

And perfectly applicable here (as you write yourself in the subject).

> Overloading another error code would avoid this confusion, especially
> since it's far less used.

Changing a well understood error number into a totally misleading one
only increases confusion.

Andreas.

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From: Olaf van der Spek on 31 Mar 2010 15:40
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab(a)linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek(a)gmail.com> writes:
>
>> File not found is a very common error message with a pretty will
>> understood meaning.
>
> And perfectly applicable here (as you write yourself in the subject).

No, it's not. It does not apply to the argument of the function called.

>> Overloading another error code would avoid this confusion, especially
>> since it's far less used.
>
> Changing a well understood error number into a totally misleading one
> only increases confusion.

Why is it totally misleading? The proposed new one is actually very close.

Olaf
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