Re: Confusing "Success" error message

[Darshit Shah]

Hi Francesco,

This issue has indeed been reported multiple times in the past. While it is
confusing, the text "Success" is out of our hands. It is the value of
`perror()` after we encounter that a system call resulted in the error.

For some reason the error string is still "Success" in these cases. It is
highly reproduceable as well. At some point I will try and dig deeper / contact
the libc upstream to see why this is happening.

* Francesco Turco <address@hidden> [191103 15:04]:
> Hello.
> 
> I'm using wget 1.20.3 on a Gentoo Linux system.
> 
> I obtain a confusing "Success" error message from wget when trying to 
> download any file into a write-protected directory.
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1) mkdir test
> 2) chmod -w test
> 3) cd test
> 4) wget --no-config 
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/sys-apps/lm-sensors/lm-sensors-3.6.0.ebuild
> 
> This is the output of the last command:
> 
> > --2019-11-03 14:53:34--  
> > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/sys-apps/lm-sensors/lm-sensors-3.6.0.ebuild
> > Resolving gitweb.gentoo.org... 108.28.123.238
> > Connecting to gitweb.gentoo.org|108.28.123.238|:443... connected.
> > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> > Length: 6445 (6.3K) [text/plain]
> > lm-sensors-3.6.0.ebuild: Permission denied
> > 
> > Cannot write to ‘lm-sensors-3.6.0.ebuild’ (Success).
> 
> Exit status is 3 (File I/O error).
> 
> As far as I know you can try replacing the Gentoo ebuild I used with any 
> other file from the internet: the error message will be the same.
> 
> Why does wget use the word "success" when it's clearly a failure instead? Is 
> this a bug?
> 
> -- 
> https://fturco.net/
> 
> 

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Thanking You,
Darshit Shah
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