[4574] in Athena Bugs
attach error messages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Tue Mar 20 12:15:38 1990
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 90 12:15:16 -0500
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
I know this has been reported several times before, but I just noticed
that it still isn't fixed, and it really should be. If it is being
declared not-a-bug, the people reporting it should at least be told
this and given a chance to argue their side.
attach, on all platforms, when it prints errors & warnings formats
them like this:
e40-008-9# attach -m /mnt e40-vsusr
e40-vsusr: Warning, mapping failed, continuing with read-only mount.
e40-vsusr: NFS mounted CHIROPTERA.MIT.EDU:/expacks/urvd64 on /mnt (read-only)
e40-008-9#
In this example it is fairly obvious what the problem is, but in some
other circumstances, you just get
filesystem-name: error message
in isolation, and have no idea what program is giving the error
message. I didn't run a program called "filesystem-name". In
following unix semantics, these messages should be
attach: filesystem-name: error message
or better yet
attach: error xxx while attaching filesystem-name
This bug report may seem like nit-picking, but if all of the error
messages followed the same semantics and were understandable, it would
do a lot to ease the difficulties of non-wizards using the system.
-Mark
