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authorBenno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>2013-01-04 22:45:34 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2013-02-06 15:57:34 +0000
commita1ee5cd714c0825b0244d09bbaa0a61c883ac18f (patch)
treeb5b0308b264b9be73dbeb1723bef30b00ab69545 /src/touch.c
parent6a404ec16555bc0757ff06d99af96c12bfbc235e (diff)
downloadcoreutils-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/touch.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/touch.c b/src/touch.c
index 2806ef71d..3a3ffbe0f 100644
--- a/src/touch.c
+++ b/src/touch.c
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ touch (const char *file)
{
if (close (STDIN_FILENO) != 0)
{
- error (0, errno, _("closing %s"), quote (file));
+ error (0, errno, _("failed to close %s"), quote (file));
return false;
}
}