Re: ENOENT instead of EPERM

[Chet Ramey]

> $ > file
> -bash: file: No such file or directory

That's what the linux kernel tells the shell.

On FreeBSD:

nike.ins.cwru.edu(2)$ echo $BASH_VERSION
2.05b.0(93)-release
nike.ins.cwru.edu(2)$ uname -a
FreeBSD nike.ins.cwru.edu 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #15: Wed Apr 30 
13:44:34 EDT 2003     chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/INS-PENT4  
i386
nike.ins.cwru.edu(2)$ > /foo
-bash: /foo: Permission denied
nike.ins.cwru.edu(2)$ echo $?
1

On Red Hat 8:

jenna.ins.cwru.edu(1)$ echo $BASH_VERSION
2.05b.0(1)-release
jenna.ins.cwru.edu(1)$ > /foo
-bash: /foo: No such file or directory
jenna.ins.cwru.edu(1)$ uname -a 
Linux jenna.ins.cwru.edu 2.4.18-14 #1 Wed Sep 4 13:35:50 EDT 2002 i686 i686 
i386 GNU/Linux


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