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| author | Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net> | 2013-01-04 22:45:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2013-02-06 15:57:34 +0000 |
| commit | a1ee5cd714c0825b0244d09bbaa0a61c883ac18f (patch) | |
| tree | b5b0308b264b9be73dbeb1723bef30b00ab69545 /src/install.c | |
| parent | 6a404ec16555bc0757ff06d99af96c12bfbc235e (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-a1ee5cd714c0825b0244d09bbaa0a61c883ac18f.tar.xz | |
maint: improve error messages upon failed read, write, access, close
Note we use "failed to {access,close}" for those single operations,
and "error {read,writ}ing" for those partial operation failures.
* src/copy.c: Improve error messages for failing read, write and close.
* src/cp.c: Improve error messages for failing access.
* src/dd.c: Improve error messages for failing read, write and open.
* src/head.c: Improve error message for failing close.
* src/install.c: Improve error messages for failing access.
* src/ln.c: Likewise.
* src/mv.c: Likewise.
* src/touch.c: Improve error message for failing close.
* src/truncate.c: Likewise.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/install.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/install.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/install.c b/src/install.c index 55333c257..94374df3e 100644 --- a/src/install.c +++ b/src/install.c @@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ target_directory_operand (char const *file) int err = (stat (file, &st) == 0 ? 0 : errno); bool is_a_dir = !err && S_ISDIR (st.st_mode); if (err && err != ENOENT) - error (EXIT_FAILURE, err, _("accessing %s"), quote (file)); + error (EXIT_FAILURE, err, _("failed to access %s"), quote (file)); if (is_a_dir < looks_like_a_dir) error (EXIT_FAILURE, err, _("target %s is not a directory"), quote (file)); return is_a_dir; @@ -841,7 +841,8 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) { struct stat st; if (stat (optarg, &st) != 0) - error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("accessing %s"), quote (optarg)); + error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("failed to access %s"), + quote (optarg)); if (! S_ISDIR (st.st_mode)) error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("target %s is not a directory"), quote (optarg)); |