Bug#448586: "No such file or directory" misleading

[jidanni@jidanni.org]

Package: general
Severity: wishlist

This message made by several programs is misleading:

# ed /etc/fonts/conf.d/61-traditional.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/61-traditional.conf: No such file or directory
q
# ls /etc/fonts/conf.d/61-traditional.conf
ls: /etc/fonts/conf.d/61-traditional.conf: No such file or directory

It should be just "no such file" as indeed there is such a directory:

# ls -d /etc/fonts/conf.d/
/etc/fonts/conf.d/

It must be some C library message. Please reassign this bug for me.