Why does ENOENT mean “No such file or directory”?

It’s an abbreviation of Error NO ENTry (or Error NO ENTity), and can actually be used for more than files/directories.

It’s abbreviated because C compilers at the dawn of time didn’t support more than 8 characters in symbols.

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