bug#80856: [PATCH] chcon, chmod, chown, rm: improve fts_read failure diagnostic

Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:59:18 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-04-18 14:22, Shubham Chakraborty wrote:
> I suggest tracking the last successfully
> visited path to provide context when reporting an error.

Not sure that's a good idea either. The last visited path might not have 
nothing to do with the problem. Specific-but-wrong diagnostics are not 
generally a win over vague-but-correct diagnostics.

If this were an easy or shallow problem to fix we would have fixed it 
already.