Added the appropriate error message when dump fails to open the output file.

[dump.git] / dump / tape.c

diff --git a/dump/tape.c b/dump/tape.c
index 39d8b4caae4023890c9be13f6604ac8faf851391..e81a58d149d47a8fb3391f0bd999900ead915797 100644 (file)
--- a/dump/tape.c
+++ b/dump/tape.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 
 #ifndef lint
 static const char rcsid[] =
-       "$Id: tape.c,v 1.65 2002/03/11 10:17:43 stelian Exp $";
+       "$Id: tape.c,v 1.66 2002/03/27 16:48:38 stelian Exp $";
 #endif /* not lint */
 
 #include <config.h>
@@ -872,7 +872,8 @@ restore_check_point:
                                  OPEN(tape, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666))) < 0)
 #endif
                    {
-                       msg("Cannot open output \"%s\".\n", tape);
+                       msg("Cannot open output \"%s\": %s\n", tape, 
+                           strerror(errno));
                        if (!query("Do you want to retry the open?"))
                                dumpabort(0);
                }