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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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Greetings, Eric Blake!

>> As to the "cp" issue, while IMHO, it should go ahead and do the copy,
>> a more instructive error message would be helpful:
>> 
>> cp: cannot create regular file `my': File 'my.exe' exists

> Huh?  Do the copy, then give a failure message?  No.  A failure message
> should only occur if the copy failed.

> Did you mean "continue to fail, but make the failure message more
> friendly?"

I'm pretty sure he did mean exactly that.
But I do see the problem in determining exact case of failure to provide such
informative error message.


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 Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 08.06.2010, <20:04>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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