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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 /login-utils | |
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 'login-utils')
-rw-r--r-- | login-utils/last.c | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | login-utils/utmpdump.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/login-utils/last.c b/login-utils/last.c index e646cabf5..d6d8d9624 100644 --- a/login-utils/last.c +++ b/login-utils/last.c @@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ static void process_wtmp_file(const struct last_control *ctl) begintime = ut.UL_UT_TIME; else { if (fstat(fileno(fp), &st) != 0) - err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("stat failed %s"), ctl->altv[ctl->alti]); + err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("stat of %s failed"), ctl->altv[ctl->alti]); begintime = st.st_ctime; quit = 1; } diff --git a/login-utils/utmpdump.c b/login-utils/utmpdump.c index 00baf31fb..03cf4a94a 100644 --- a/login-utils/utmpdump.c +++ b/login-utils/utmpdump.c @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ static void roll_file(const char *filename, off_t *size, FILE *out) err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("cannot open %s"), filename); if (fstat(fileno(in), &st) == -1) - err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("%s: stat failed"), filename); + err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("stat of %s failed"), filename); if (st.st_size == *size) goto done; |