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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2001-12-11 11:47:54 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2001-12-11 11:47:54 +0000
commit47a2e7569ca018013585651e880dab4e7a4dc31d (patch)
treea04a87a91967080cd692bf659bbeec607a0fad1c /src
parentd5654c49bd0e4cf19a538b09b77d4472438bda92 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-47a2e7569ca018013585651e880dab4e7a4dc31d.tar.xz
(main):
Include the word `fail' in some diagnostics to make it clearer that they indicate a failure. s/getting attributes/failed to get attributes/
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/chown.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/chown.c b/src/chown.c
index d7f3c982c..9a602d302 100644
--- a/src/chown.c
+++ b/src/chown.c
@@ -217,7 +217,8 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
struct stat ref_stats;
if (stat (reference_file, &ref_stats))
- error (1, errno, _("getting attributes of %s"), quote (reference_file));
+ error (1, errno, _("failed to get attributes of %s"),
+ quote (reference_file));
uid = ref_stats.st_uid;
gid = ref_stats.st_gid;