Re: confusing error message in os.rename (bug?)

[Wolfram Ladurner <wl@...>]

Am 18.10.2012 15:05, schrieb Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo:
> > $ lua -e 'assert( os.rename( "testfile", "/does/not/exist" ) )'
> > lua: <command line>:1: testfile: No such file or directory
>
> The message comes from the OS. There is nothing we can do about it.
> Try it on the command line:
> 	mv testfile /does/not/exist
> You'll get
> 	mv: rename testfile to /does/not/exist: No such file or directory

You are right, "No such file or directory" comes from the OS, but the 
"testfile: " comes from Lua.  I can live with that, but I still think 
it's misleading.

(mv also shows different messages, depending on whether the old or the 
new name is incorrect:)

$ mv testfile /does/not/exists
mv: cannot move `testfile' to `/does/not/exists': No such file or directory
$ mv /does/not/exist testfile
mv: cannot stat `/does/not/exist': No such file or directory

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Wolfram Ladurner