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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 50204@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50204: "Success" seen in failed copy message
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 08:46:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkLxcWh=P70ZxRNRcTTKWwfD-wqCJ8pGY-Em7ew2+iBqw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zgt4m7y7.5.fsf@jidanni.org> ("積丹尼 Dan Jacobson"'s message of "Fri, 27 Aug 2021 01:28:32 +0800")

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

>>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@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?





  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-21 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-25 19:25 bug#50204: "Success" seen in failed copy message 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-08-26  6:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-26 16:53   ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-08-26 17:03     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-26 17:28       ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2021-08-26 17:31         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-21 15:46         ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-09-21 16:01           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-21 16:40             ` Stefan Kangas

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