Hi Francesco, This issue has indeed been reported multiple times in the past. While it is confusing, the text "Success" is out of our hands. It is the value of `perror()` after we encounter that a system call resulted in the error.
For some reason the error string is still "Success" in these cases. It is highly reproduceable as well. At some point I will try and dig deeper / contact the libc upstream to see why this is happening. * Francesco Turco <ftu...@fastmail.fm> [191103 15:04]: > Hello. > > I'm using wget 1.20.3 on a Gentoo Linux system. > > I obtain a confusing "Success" error message from wget when trying to > download any file into a write-protected directory. > > Steps to reproduce: > 1) mkdir test > 2) chmod -w test > 3) cd test > 4) wget --no-config > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/sys-apps/lm-sensors/lm-sensors-3.6.0.ebuild > > This is the output of the last command: > > > --2019-11-03 14:53:34-- > > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/sys-apps/lm-sensors/lm-sensors-3.6.0.ebuild > > Resolving gitweb.gentoo.org... 108.28.123.238 > > Connecting to gitweb.gentoo.org|108.28.123.238|:443... connected. > > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > > Length: 6445 (6.3K) [text/plain] > > lm-sensors-3.6.0.ebuild: Permission denied > > > > Cannot write to ‘lm-sensors-3.6.0.ebuild’ (Success). > > Exit status is 3 (File I/O error). > > As far as I know you can try replacing the Gentoo ebuild I used with any > other file from the internet: the error message will be the same. > > Why does wget use the word "success" when it's clearly a failure instead? Is > this a bug? > > -- > https://fturco.net/ > > -- Thanking You, Darshit Shah PGP Fingerprint: 7845 120B 07CB D8D6 ECE5 FF2B 2A17 43ED A91A 35B6
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