Re: solved: `ls` shows file, `bash` says "No such file" ???

[Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk>]

On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 08:50:58AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:

> Although, if we wanted to get really crazy, we could say this is a bug in
> the spec of ld. But if we go there, we have to acknowledge that the spec of
> ld matches the general C/*nix run-time spec, so the bug is in ... (chasing
> our semantic tail a bit) ... certain implementation-dependent, but de-facto
> spec, low-level elements of the C run-time which make it hard to return
> non-scalar error messages from low-level tools.
> 
> (I know that sounds like a string of buzz-words, but making it any simpler
> just ends up as a pejorative reference to the 8086's lack of extra address
> registers. :-\ )

Indeed. I think my brain just broke. Let's just say the bug report
should be against Tom Roche's workplace's network security bods :)

Cheers,
Tom

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