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Enhance error reporting on failed OS cal

F153 - Failure Feedback Forum 

Status: confirmed Severity: enhance Category: Metakit OOMK Created: 2007-05-25 Updated: 2007-06-11

It would be helpful to have better diagnostics on OS calls like file open that fail, both more precise error messages, but also setting Tcl's errorCode variable. Compare:

  [powerbook:/tmp] roseman% tclkit
  % open sitedata.db
  couldn't open "sitedata.db": permission denied
  % set errorCode
  POSIX EACCES {permission denied}
  % mk::file open db sitedata.db
  file open failed
  % set errorCode
  NONE
  %

(man Tcl_SetErrorCode)



2007-05-25 Mark Roseman

Imported

2007-06-11 jcw

(Changed: stat)

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