Re: File sharing over virtio-9p

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> [W]hich of the following is more readable to the user:

> $ ls foo
> ls: foo: No such file or directory

> or

> $ ls foo
> ls: stat(foo): No such file or directory

It depends entirely on the user.

As I recently wrote on a non-NetBSD mailing list, there is no such
thing as a good or bad user interface; there is only a good or bad user
interfaces for a particular user (or class of sufficiently-similar
users).

I've lost track of the number of times I've had to resort to a
sledgehammer such as ktrace to find out what's really going wrong
because an error message doesn't report enough information.

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