bug#22584: cp could be more precise than "Not a directory"

severity 22584 wishlist tags 22584 wontfix close 22584 stop (triaging old bugs) On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 08:29:12AM +0100, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 02/08/2016 10:28 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > > Ah ha, they just should have returned what the system calls said in the > > first place, and not

bug#22584: cp could be more precise than "Not a directory"

No I am talking about when there is a slash, but no such file or directory. > "LSS" == Leslie S Satenstein writes: LSS> Should that be cp .profile /tmp/My_DocVments #no trailing slash

bug#22584: cp could be more precise than "Not a directory"

Hello Dan, A bit more technical information (though not a resolution): On 02/07/2016 11:19 AM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: $ cp .profile /tmp/My_DocVments/ cp: cannot create regular file '/tmp/My_DocVments/': Not a directory Well can't it be more precise: No such directory nor file. This is in

bug#22584: cp could be more precise than "Not a directory"

Ah ha, they just should have returned what the system calls said in the first place, and not tinker with the output! Them tinkering with the output only makes things worse.

bug#22584: cp could be more precise than "Not a directory"

$ cp .profile /tmp/My_DocVments/ cp: cannot create regular file '/tmp/My_DocVments/': Not a directory Well can't it be more precise: No such directory nor file.