ENOTDIR translation is funny

[Robert Collins]

On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 10:00 -0800, Robey Pointer wrote:
> 
> It may be because sftp servers tend to translate ENOTDIR to  
> SFTP_NO_SUCH_FILE.  (SFTP only has 4 real error codes.)  As I guess  
> people are sick of hearing me say: We can't really depend on good  
> error fidelity from transports, so we shouldn't put too much weight  
> on fine-grained error codes.  I think HTTP can barely do better than  
> "it succeeded" vs "it failed".

Hmm, could be. I was just a little worried about confusion when someone
issues a local 'transport.delete('a_directory')' and recieves
'NoSuchFile' as the error.

Rob

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