From: Pranit Bauva Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 16:07:10 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v11 04/13] bisect--helper: `bisect_clean_state` shell function in C Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hey Junio, On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 9:15 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Pranit Bauva writes: > >>> Also you do not seem to check the error from the function to smudge >>> the "result" you are returning from this function. >> >> Yes I should combine the results from every removal. >> >>> Isn't unlink_or_warn() more correct helper to use here? >> >> The shell code uses rm -f which is silent and it removes only if >> present. > > Isn't that what unlink_or_warn() do? Call unlink() and happily > return if unlink() succeeds or errors with ENOENT (i.e. path didn't > exist in the first place), but otherwise reports an error (imagine: > EPERM). Umm, I am confused. I tried "rm -f" with a non-existing file and it does not show any warning or error. Regards, Pranit Bauva