bug#80856: [PATCH] chcon, chmod, chown, rm: improve fts_read failure diagnostic
Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:59:18 -0700
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| Organization | UCLA Computer Science Department |
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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.