Andreas Schwab wrote: > Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > (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 just what strerror(EISDIR) returns, which has no > information about the actual operation that failed.
But grep has this information: it knows what it was trying to do, so it could replace the standard message with something more specific. Benno
