From: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 10:52:01 -0700
> What value are the messages providing above and beyond the standard libc > strerror(errno)? In the case of ENOMEM, there is nothing in the user can > do to fix that particular command, so why bloat the code with extraneous > messages? Similarly with other errors like ENODEV -- if there is only 1 > device in question AND the user specified the device then you do not > need to augment with an additional error message. Agreed, all of this stuff is bloat and not useful in any way to the user.