--netrc-file with non-existent / non-readable file - no error message

[arlt]

I did this

curl --location https://fqdn/file --netrc-file which_does_not_exist doesn't produce an error message / is silently ignored

I expected the following

curl output:

curl: netrc-file "which_does_not_exist" is not readable or does not exist

curl/libcurl version

curl 7.76.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.76.1 OpenSSL/3.2.2 zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.9 libidn2/2.3.0 libpsl/0.21.1 (+libidn2/2.3.0) libssh/0.10.4/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.43.0
Release-Date: 2021-04-14
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher gophers http https imap imaps ldap ldaps mqtt pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS brotli GSS-API HTTP2 HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz NTLM NTLM_WB PSL SPNEGO SSL TLS-SRP UnixSockets

operating system

Linux myvm 5.14.0-503.22.1.el9_5.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Jan 15 08:02:15 EST 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux