- From: timeless <timeless@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 23:14:19 +0300
- To: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
- Cc: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>, Eric U <ericu@google.com>, Web Applications Working Group WG <public-webapps@w3.org>, Kinuko Yasuda <kinuko@google.com>
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com> wrote: > The one take-away I have from that bug: it would have been nice to have a > more descriptive error message. > It took awhile to figure out that the path length was too long for the > implementation. if the exception included a suggested legal / available filename, would that have helped? e.g. if i try to create a file whose name is 2345 characters long, and my exception suggests a file that's 255 characters long (probably via truncation, although possibly using some tilde stuff or whatever), i suspect i might be able to figure out that it's a 256 character limit. Similarly if i try to create a file w/ a <:> in it, and i get an exception with a file that doesn't have one, i might be able to understand what's going wrong and what to do.
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