[Libguestfs] [PATCH 1/7] fish: Do not emit error message if history file cannot be open for writing.

[Jim Meyering]

Hilko Bengen wrote:
> The error message generated by perror() is not particularly useful to
> the user. Many other command line programs that can keep history
> around cope silently if they can't create or write to their history
> file.
> ---
>  fish/fish.c |    4 +---
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fish/fish.c b/fish/fish.c
> index e388832..3bb9501 100644
> --- a/fish/fish.c
> +++ b/fish/fish.c
> @@ -1431,10 +1431,8 @@ cleanup_readline (void)
>
>    if (histfile[0] != '\0') {
>      fd = open (histfile, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT, 0644);
> -    if (fd == -1) {
> -      perror (histfile);
> +    if (fd == -1)
>        return;
> -    }
>      close (fd);

What is the motivation for this change?
Wouldn't you want to be alerted if this were due to EACCES, EPERM or EIO?

IMHO, removing a diagnostic like that requires more justification.