* On Friday 2005-11-04 at 16:50:55 +0000, Julian Foad wrote: > > Yes, that's true: the message could quite easily be extended or replaced, > but is this really something that needs fixing? It doesn't seem like a > significant problem to me. It's fairly obvious from its form that it's an > error message.
My take is that we could eventually change the whole suppressible_error()/errseen framework, but not right now, since this is more of a new feature than a bug fix. This would go well with my proposal to track the kind of error (i.e., which system call) with a bit-flag in the exit code as well.