Re: cp command

[Philip Rowlands]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Bob Proulx wrote:

>In general there are many possible ways for a program to fail.
>Personally I believe that trying to enumerate all possible failures is
>not a good way to do things because it is never good to try to
>enumerate an unbounded set.

True, but perhaps a standard and well-known list can also be useful.
sysexits.h on my glibc system tries to capture some common failures
modes.

I agree with the comments about OS diversity and the lack of reliable
results, so I'm not suggesting converting all of coreutils :)


Cheers,
Phil