Re: grep . /; echo $?

[Charles Levert]

* On Friday 2005-11-04 at 16:50:55 +0000, Julian Foad wrote:
> 
> Yes, that's true: the message could quite easily be extended or replaced, 
> but is this really something that needs fixing?  It doesn't seem like a 
> significant problem to me.  It's fairly obvious from its form that it's an 
> error message.

My take is that we could eventually change the
whole suppressible_error()/errseen framework,
but not right now, since this is more of a new
feature than a bug fix.  This would go well with
my proposal to track the kind of error (i.e.,
which system call) with a bit-flag in the exit
code as well.