> [W]hich of the following is more readable to the user: > $ ls foo > ls: foo: No such file or directory
> or > $ ls foo > ls: stat(foo): No such file or directory It depends entirely on the user. As I recently wrote on a non-NetBSD mailing list, there is no such thing as a good or bad user interface; there is only a good or bad user interfaces for a particular user (or class of sufficiently-similar users). I've lost track of the number of times I've had to resort to a sledgehammer such as ktrace to find out what's really going wrong because an error message doesn't report enough information. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
