"cd" in shell mode should report errors

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From: Paul Rubin
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 21:22

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In GNU Emacs 18.58.1 of Wed Apr  8 1992 on yoyo (berkeley-unix)

When change directories in a subshell, Emacs tries to notice, so
that find-file etc. do the right thing.  But if the current dir
has a subdir called "foobar-frobozz-pastafazoola" and I type
"cd foo*" to change into it, Emacs doesn't track it properly.
It is maybe too much to ask for Emacs to expand "foo*", but
if it tries to cd to "foo*" and fails, it should display
some message in the mode line saying that this has happened.
Then I can notice and do something about it if necessary.

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