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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: brobecker@ACT-Europe.FR
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] Should openp open directories?
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 02:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6097-Fri19Apr2002124608+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020419111807.A7903@act-europe.fr> (message from Joel Brobecker on Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:18:07 +0200)

> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:18:07 +0200
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@ACT-Europe.FR>
> 
> It seems a sensible idea to return True when stat fails, except when the
> file does not exist.

This is okay with me (non-existing files will fail the open call
anyhow).

> > Also, did you try your patch when there's a directory by that name, but 
> > no executable program?  If so, what does the patched GDB say and/or do?
> 
> Yes. I tried "./gdb/gdb bfd" at the root of the gdb source directory and
> got the following error message:
> 
>           bfd: No such file or directory.

That's good.  Thanks for testing.

> The "or directory" part may be confusing...

Yes, but it's a standard string associated with ENOENT, so I guess
users of GDB should be acquainted with it.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-19  9:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-18  3:25 Joel Brobecker
2002-04-18  8:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-19  2:18   ` Joel Brobecker
2002-04-19  2:54     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-04-22  4:00       ` Joel Brobecker
2002-04-22 11:33         ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-23  4:09           ` Joel Brobecker

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