bug#80734: Don't tell users *they* gave an improper argument

Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Sun, 5 Apr 2026 15:46:03 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-04-05 03:10, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Well then say "Internal error: ...."

It doesn't sound like it was an internal error, so that's not likely to 
be a good approach.


> I am not trying to debug what happened to me.
> I'm trying to get better error messages in the general case.

Sure, but to do the latter it sounds like you'll need to do the former.