* On Thursday 2005-11-03 at 23:56:32 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Charles Levert wrote: > > [...] > > src/grep: src: Is a directory
> (The message itself is a bit strange though: it doesn't sound like > an error. "Cannot read a directory" would be better.) The message is inherited from strerror(EISDIR). That's the reason why it doesn't make any mention of the system call that failed (read(), in this case).