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Diffstat (limited to 'src/touch.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/touch.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/touch.c b/src/touch.c index 645357082..faec81911 100644 --- a/src/touch.c +++ b/src/touch.c @@ -214,7 +214,13 @@ touch (const char *file) if (status) { if (open_errno) - error (0, open_errno, _("creating %s"), quote (file)); + { + /* The wording of this diagnostic should cover at least two cases: + - the file does not exist, but the parent directory is unwritable + - the file exists, but it isn't writable + I think it's not worth trying to distinguish them. */ + error (0, open_errno, _("cannot touch %s"), quote (file)); + } else { if (no_create && errno == ENOENT) |