Re: Errno checks for rmtree()

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > OK, so you just wanted _an_ error string to be printed on failure rather
> > than the reasons.
>
> Well, what we want to know is the particular file that couldn't be
> deleted and the errno code. This is all "can't happen" stuff and so
> it just has to be a message that is useful for debugging; I don't see
> that it has to be amazingly user-friendly.

Wow, you want to print out the raw errno number. We only do that in one
or two places in our code that I could fine.

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