On Wed, 2 Oct 2024, Warner Losh wrote:

      Ack, okay.   I can't trigger it with a fresh or my /usr/obj but in any
      event the error number 6 is probably referring to a path or directory
      missing while doing a parallel build given some input state :-)

      #define ENXIO           6               /* Device not configured */


ENXIO usually is reserved for hardware errors when a device disappears
for block I/O contexts. So I'm not sure that this theory is so good.

But shell error exit statuses are largely independent of errnos.

Warner

Thank you, I was indeed stretching to make error no 6 work for me in this context by thinking it was really a mis identitied file or directory not found. However, if someone's going to return 6, then they'll return a 6, nothing I can do about it other than expect it again sometime.
:-)

Dan

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