1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/ninep/ctl.zig b/src/ninep/ctl.zig
index 382cc0e7..386fd9a9 100644
--- a/src/ninep/ctl.zig
+++ b/src/ninep/ctl.zig
@@ -926,3 +926,28 @@ test "look and exec read back what the last command touched, a ctl write's too"
     try testing.expectEqual(tree.Status.ok, wr(p, @intFromEnum(tree.TopFile.ctl), "Verbose off\n").reply.status);
     try testing.expectEqualStrings(try std.fmt.bufPrint(&want, "{d}\n", .{made}), rd(p, root_exec, 0, 64).bytes);
 }
+
+test "an error's words give the errno a mount reads: EINVAL for what is malformed, EIO for what failed" {
+    // 9ns (cloud9's 9ns/src/nine.zig) maps an error to an errno by its
+    // words, and EIO when none of them match: these words must not.
+    const addressing = @import("addr.zig");
+    const einval = [_][]const u8{ "control message", "invalid", "bad " };
+    const other = [_][]const u8{ "interrupt", "shut down", "not exist", "not found", "no such", "exists", "not empty", "not a dir", "is a dir", "permission", "denied", "read-only", "read only", "no space", "not allowed", "not permitted", "cannot", "fid", "busy", "in use", "too long", "not supported", "unsupported" };
+    const Case = struct { text: []const u8, malformed: bool };
+    for ([_]Case{
+        .{ .text = addressing.e_syntax, .malformed = true },
+        .{ .text = addressing.e_regexp, .malformed = true },
+        .{ .text = e_prompt, .malformed = true },
+        .{ .text = addressing.e_no_match, .malformed = false },
+        .{ .text = addressing.e_range, .malformed = false },
+        .{ .text = addressing.e_order, .malformed = false },
+        .{ .text = addressing.e_slow, .malformed = false },
+        .{ .text = "/tmp/x.txt: Modified (Exit again to discard)", .malformed = false },
+    }) |c| {
+        const says_einval = for (einval) |w| {
+            if (std.ascii.findIgnoreCase(c.text, w) != null) break true;
+        } else false;
+        try testing.expectEqual(c.malformed, says_einval);
+        for (other) |w| try testing.expect(std.ascii.findIgnoreCase(c.text, w) == null);
+    }
+}