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Over-reaction (was Re: trapped in bash)
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- From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Subject: Over-reaction (was Re: trapped in bash)
- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 11:14:35 -0800
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On Dec 19, 5:47pm, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
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} Yes, error messages should generally be signed.
I don't like this, for several reasons:
1. It's confusing extra information that is completely irrelevant to
most users most of the time. The circumstances in which this
error comes up are ridiculously rare.
2. Arguably it's not even useful extra information; anybody who would
not be confused by the term "execve" already knows that's where
the error must be coming from.
3. No other shell exposes this detail. That's not in itself a
reason for zsh not to, but see #1 for context.
4. There are other ways (previously posted command_not_found_handler
for example) to convey the equivalent information.
5. IMO Ray is deep into "if you break it, you get to keep the pieces"
territory with his whole attempt to wholesale copy binaries from
one architecture to another, and we should not take this as an
example of situation we ought to be special-casing.
6. It's a bad precedent to distract ourselves with stuff like #5 that
doesn't even rise to the level of a FREQUENTLY asked question.
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