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From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi•com>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw•cz>
Cc: ecashin@coraid•com, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: git add / update-cache --add fails.
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:01:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050427180143.0447ceaa.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050427173059.GE22956@pasky.ji.cz>

Petr wrote:
>  	fd = open(path, O_RDONLY);
>  	if (fd < 0) {
> +		fprintf(stderr, "update-cache Error: %s\n", strerror(errno));

It's usually a good idea to indicate which system call you were
attempting in such error messages, and if handy, the key argument.
Just the errno might not mean much:

> +		fprintf(stderr, "update-cache open(%s) failed: %s\n", path, strerror(errno));

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-28  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-25 21:26 git add / update-cache --add fails Rhys Hardwick
2005-04-25 21:50 ` Rhys Hardwick
2005-04-25 21:52 ` Rhys Hardwick
2005-04-25 22:09   ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-26  0:47   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-26  6:26     ` Rhys Hardwick
2005-04-27  2:35       ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-27 16:48         ` Ed L Cashin
2005-04-27 17:30           ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-27 17:38             ` Ed L Cashin
2005-04-28  1:01             ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2005-04-28  1:05               ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-28  1:20                 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-26  1:38   ` Junio C Hamano

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