[293] in Kerberos
Re: misparsable/ambiguous error message
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Jerome H. Saltzer)
Sun Dec 20 16:13:11 1987
To: <srz@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <srz@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>'s message of Sun, 20 Dec 87 14:48:06 EST
From: Jerome H. Saltzer <Saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
> I think error messages should be as fine grained as possible.
I agree; Stan has the right handle on this problem. In an
environment where many different things can go wrong, it is far more
user-friendly to give a precise description of what happened. To a
first approximation, every different test that can fail ought to
result in a distinct error message.
Jerry
