Post B6I9d75H2n86u2QKSO by niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be
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(DIR) Post #B6I9d6pK06My6Yxaam by eoaiuastwg@borg.social
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I love intentionally misleading error messages
(DIR) Post #B6I9d75H2n86u2QKSO by niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be
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@eoaiuastwg@borg.social The error code is in a global variable, overwritten by something unrelated in another thread and translated by strerror() to a random message like "operation succeeded."
(DIR) Post #B6I9r5BEv2Sp3JsJzE by eoaiuastwg@borg.social
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@niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be Those are annoying, too. Though I mostly meant to refer to cases where software very intentionally provides a misleading error code because they don't want to give any information about how their auth/security/DRM/whatever critical subsystem works.