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Give the user a hint the first time they encounter a permision error.#471

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@klenze klenze commented Feb 9, 2022

"Permission Error", without the information precisely which system/library call failed with which arguments is not all that helpful (and figuring out what exactly fails is not straightforward [1]), so after printing the error reply, point users to #313, which is likely the cause.

(Alternatively, one could also check capabilities during startup, e.g. using capget(2) or libcap. Might by worth it if any command a user can run needs these capabilities.)

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[1] strace shows (apparently successful) interactions with both an eventfd (glib event loop related?) and a socket (the actual bluetooth stuff).

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