I’ll give it a shot. A.
> On May 28, 2022, at 4:35 PM, Dale R. Worley <wor...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > AA via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell <bug-bash@gnu.org> > writes: >> I.e., something like "I'm not sure what's going on, but your path >> definitely exists, yet the kernel says otherwise." >> >> ... something like fprintf(STDERR,"No such file or directory while >> attempting to execute %s (it exists, but cannot be executed)",path); > > Historically, the way to get something like this to happen is to design > and code the modification that does it. That has the advantage that you > have to bite the bullet and instead of just describing the general idea, > decide on a concrete implementation. That sounds obvious, but there is > a long history of ideas in software that *sound good* but for which > there is no implementation that sucks less than the problem the idea > seeks to solve. > > Dale
