[CCing bug-gnulib.] Collin Funk wrote: > > -truncate: cannot open '.' for writing: Is a directory > > +truncate: cannot open '.' for writing: Invalid argument > ... > This is almost certainly worth documenting in the Gnulib manual, and > perhaps replacing:
Worth documenting: Yes. Worth overriding open(): Probably not. There are many situations where systems, especially old ones, provide errno values that are not those that POSIX wants to see. Typically the applications can work with either errno value, the POSIX one and the platform-specific one, without needing source code changes. Bruno
