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author | Benno Schulenberg | 2015-01-29 21:21:48 +0100 |
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committer | Karel Zak | 2015-02-02 11:27:10 +0100 |
commit | fc14ceba5e545a0e0f61e7a9fe562c79671258ef (patch) | |
tree | d89308fcbb2a9b4d23f64c0ab191c61f0d9aa9d6 /disk-utils/fdformat.c | |
parent | docs: mention nice(1) in renice(1) manual page (diff) | |
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textual: grammarize and harmonize the stat error message
The message "stat failed %s" seems to say that stat() failed to
do something, or failed to pass a test, but of course it means
that the statting of something failed. So say so. Also make
two very similar messages equal to this one.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'disk-utils/fdformat.c')
-rw-r--r-- | disk-utils/fdformat.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/disk-utils/fdformat.c b/disk-utils/fdformat.c index ad9a86367..e7d43da8f 100644 --- a/disk-utils/fdformat.c +++ b/disk-utils/fdformat.c @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) if (argc < 1) usage(stderr); if (stat(argv[0], &st) < 0) - err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("stat failed %s"), argv[0]); + err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("stat of %s failed"), argv[0]); if (!S_ISBLK(st.st_mode)) /* do not test major - perhaps this was an USB floppy */ errx(EXIT_FAILURE, _("%s: not a block device"), argv[0]); |