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Re: Confusing "Success" error message
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Tim Rühsen |
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Re: Confusing "Success" error message |
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Thu, 7 Nov 2019 21:43:00 +0100 |
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Interesting... same version here (Debian unstable) gives
--2019-11-07 21:38:14--
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/sys-apps/lm-sensors/lm-sensors-3.6.0.ebuild
Resolving gitweb.gentoo.org (gitweb.gentoo.org)... 108.28.123.238
Connecting to gitweb.gentoo.org
(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' (Permission denied).
Sorry, not sure what is different here.
This commit should have fixed it:
commit 3056617e9cf9a2c68989a2ff4e4266f6e7a4de45
Author: Tim Rühsen <address@hidden>
Date: Wed Feb 10 15:23:13 2016 +0100
Retain value of errno in logprintf()
* src/log.c (logprintf): Save&Restore value of errno
Regards, Tim
On 03.11.19 14:59, Francesco Turco wrote:
> 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?
>
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- Confusing "Success" error message, Francesco Turco, 2019/11/03
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Darshit Shah, 2019/11/03
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message,
Tim Rühsen <=
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Andries E. Brouwer, 2019/11/07
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Tim Rühsen, 2019/11/08
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Francesco Turco, 2019/11/08
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Francesco Turco, 2019/11/08
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Andries E. Brouwer, 2019/11/08
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/08
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Andries E. Brouwer, 2019/11/08
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/08
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Andries E. Brouwer, 2019/11/08
- Re: Confusing "Success" error message, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/08