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#50204
"Success" seen in failed copy message
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Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 19:28:01 UTC
Severity: minor
Tags: notabug
Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
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I did
$ ln -s ~/mapping/aiyongxian/aiyongxian.kml /tmp/
Then in emacs I did
C ;; dired-do-copy
Overwrite ‘/tmp/aiyongxian.kml’? [Type yn!q or C-h] y
Copy: ‘/home/jidanni/mapping/aiyongxian/aiyongxian.kml’ to ‘/tmp/aiyongxian.kml’ failed:
(file-error Input and output files are the same Success /home/jidanni/mapping/aiyongxian/aiyongxian.kml /tmp/aiyongxian.kml)
OK, but why the word "Success"?!
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Message #8 received at 50204 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 03:25:49 +0800
>
> I did
> $ ln -s ~/mapping/aiyongxian/aiyongxian.kml /tmp/
>
> Then in emacs I did
> C ;; dired-do-copy
> Overwrite ‘/tmp/aiyongxian.kml’? [Type yn!q or C-h] y
> Copy: ‘/home/jidanni/mapping/aiyongxian/aiyongxian.kml’ to ‘/tmp/aiyongxian.kml’ failed:
> (file-error Input and output files are the same Success /home/jidanni/mapping/aiyongxian/aiyongxian.kml /tmp/aiyongxian.kml)
>
> OK, but why the word "Success"?!
Because that's not really a "failure": the file was already there.
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Message #11 received at 50204 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> I did
>> $ ln -s ~/mapping/aiyongxian/aiyongxian.kml /tmp/
>>
>> Then in emacs I did
>> C ;; dired-do-copy
>> Overwrite ‘/tmp/aiyongxian.kml’? [Type yn!q or C-h] y
>> Copy: ‘/home/jidanni/mapping/aiyongxian/aiyongxian.kml’ to ‘/tmp/aiyongxian.kml’ failed:
>> (file-error Input and output files are the same Success /home/jidanni/mapping/aiyongxian/aiyongxian.kml /tmp/aiyongxian.kml)
>>
>> OK, but why the word "Success"?!
EZ> Because that's not really a "failure": the file was already there.
OK, but, the shell says 1, not 0:
$ ln -s ~/mln -s ~/mapping/aiyongxian/aiyongxian.kml /tmp/
$ cp ~/mapping/aiyongxian/aiyongxian.kml /tmp/; echo $?
cp: '/home/jidanni/mapping/aiyongxian/aiyongxian.kml' and '/tmp/aiyongxian.kml' are the same file
1
Also
>> (file-error Input and output files are the same Success /home/jidanni/mapping/aiyongxian/aiyongxian.kml /tmp/aiyongxian.kml)
should be
>> (file-error Input and output files are the same. Success. /home/jidanni/mapping/aiyongxian/aiyongxian.kml /tmp/aiyongxian.kml)
But that doesn't make sense either.
Obviously the word Success has been stuck in the middle, and should be
moved to the front or back. And in fact changed to Failure.
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Message #14 received at 50204 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
> Cc: 50204 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:53:04 +0800
>
> >> OK, but why the word "Success"?!
>
> EZ> Because that's not really a "failure": the file was already there.
>
> OK, but, the shell says 1, not 0:
So does Emacs: that's why you get the error message. The "Success"
part comes from the value of errno.
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Message #17 received at 50204 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
EZ> So does Emacs: that's why you get the error message. The "Success"
EZ> part comes from the value of errno.
I see. Success means failure.
Or maybe failure means success.
OK. Got it.
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Message #20 received at 50204 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
> Cc: 50204 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 01:28:32 +0800
>
> >>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> EZ> So does Emacs: that's why you get the error message. The "Success"
> EZ> part comes from the value of errno.
>
> I see. Success means failure.
> Or maybe failure means success.
Also "failure is not an option".
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Message #23 received at 50204 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> writes:
>>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> EZ> So does Emacs: that's why you get the error message. The "Success"
> EZ> part comes from the value of errno.
>
> I see. Success means failure.
> Or maybe failure means success.
> OK. Got it.
I think we should thank POSIX for any confusion that can come from this.
So should this be closed as notabug?
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Message #26 received at 50204 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 08:46:11 -0700
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 50204 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>
> 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> writes:
>
> >>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> > EZ> So does Emacs: that's why you get the error message. The "Success"
> > EZ> part comes from the value of errno.
> >
> > I see. Success means failure.
> > Or maybe failure means success.
> > OK. Got it.
>
> I think we should thank POSIX for any confusion that can come from this.
>
> So should this be closed as notabug?
Yes, I think so.
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Message #29 received at 50204 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
tags 50204 notabug
close 50204
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> So should this be closed as notabug?
>
> Yes, I think so.
I'm therefore closing this bug report.
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