Re: Confusing "Success" error message

[Tim Rühsen]

Interesting... same version here (Debian unstable) gives

--2019-11-07 21:38:14--
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/sys-apps/lm-sensors/lm-sensors-3.6.0.ebuild
Resolving gitweb.gentoo.org (gitweb.gentoo.org)... 108.28.123.238
Connecting to gitweb.gentoo.org
(gitweb.gentoo.org)|108.28.123.238|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 6445 (6.3K) [text/plain]
lm-sensors-3.6.0.ebuild: Permission denied

Cannot write to 'lm-sensors-3.6.0.ebuild' (Permission denied).


Sorry, not sure what is different here.
This commit should have fixed it:

commit 3056617e9cf9a2c68989a2ff4e4266f6e7a4de45
Author: Tim Rühsen <address@hidden>
Date:   Wed Feb 10 15:23:13 2016 +0100

    Retain value of errno in logprintf()

    * src/log.c (logprintf): Save&Restore value of errno


Regards, Tim

On 03.11.19 14:59, Francesco Turco wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I'm using wget 1.20.3 on a Gentoo Linux system.
> 
> I obtain a confusing "Success" error message from wget when trying to 
> download any file into a write-protected directory.
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1) mkdir test
> 2) chmod -w test
> 3) cd test
> 4) wget --no-config 
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/sys-apps/lm-sensors/lm-sensors-3.6.0.ebuild
> 
> This is the output of the last command:
> 
>> --2019-11-03 14:53:34--  
>> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/sys-apps/lm-sensors/lm-sensors-3.6.0.ebuild
>> Resolving gitweb.gentoo.org... 108.28.123.238
>> Connecting to gitweb.gentoo.org|108.28.123.238|:443... connected.
>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
>> Length: 6445 (6.3K) [text/plain]
>> lm-sensors-3.6.0.ebuild: Permission denied
>>
>> Cannot write to ‘lm-sensors-3.6.0.ebuild’ (Success).
> 
> Exit status is 3 (File I/O error).
> 
> As far as I know you can try replacing the Gentoo ebuild I used with any 
> other file from the internet: the error message will be the same.
> 
> Why does wget use the word "success" when it's clearly a failure instead? Is 
> this a bug?
>

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