[BusyBox] init difficulties

vda vda at port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua
Fri Oct 10 07:54:56 UTC 2003


On Thursday 09 October 2003 15:16, Steven P Valliere wrote:
> 3. Error messages that actually mean something
>    would also be a HUGE help.  For example, when
>    ash tried to execute a script but there was
>    invisible garbage at the end of #!/bin/sh it
>    simply reported 'File not found' (or something
>    to that effect) implying that the SCRIPT was
>    not found.  It REALLY should show the name of
>    the file it was looking for.  And insmod was
>    reporting .o: module cannot be located (or
>    again, something similar).  Needless to say,
>    I didn't have a single entry reading 'insmod .o'
>    to the error was much less than helpful.  In
>    fact, the error stripped the filename itself AND
>    the trailing garbage -- which would've instantly
>    illustrated the problem.
>
> OK, I'll shut up now.
> Not that anyone's listening anyway.

You can code that up, its trivial to add filename to
'file not found' message.
-- 
vda



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