Re: [PATCH] Error message clarification

2007-03-31 Thread James Youngman
On 3/31/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mine was just a quick hack to alleviate the matter, but yours surely offers more than that. Applied. By the way, I think you introduced some broken things into current find/ CVS: Where is get_stat_birthtime() defined? It is from gnul

Re: [PATCH] Error message clarification

2007-03-31 Thread leslie . polzer
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 07:14:24PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: > How about this patch, which gives a more specific error? > [...] Well, even better! :) Mine was just a quick hack to alleviate the matter, but yours surely offers more than that. By the way, I think you introduced some broken thin

Re: [PATCH] Error message clarification

2007-03-31 Thread James Youngman
On 3/31/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When a predicate is not syntactically correct, the find parser will currently say: "invalid predicate `%s'" which IMO obscures the fact that the predicate NAME may be alright, but the number or format of parameters didn't match. How a

[PATCH] Error message clarification

2007-03-31 Thread leslie . polzer
Another quickie. When a predicate is not syntactically correct, the find parser will currently say: "invalid predicate `%s'" which IMO obscures the fact that the predicate NAME may be alright, but the number or format of parameters didn't match. Therefore: "invalid or malformed predicat