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

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index b98f214d48c6e9a2b2eefa0c52ed420ea3583b47..d17b090f281a62195d1b40b4e02048b6f7c4d53b 100644 (file)
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Id: CHANGES,v 1.167 2002/03/11 10:17:42 stelian Exp $
+$Id: CHANGES,v 1.168 2002/03/27 16:48:38 stelian Exp $

 
 Changes between versions 0.4b27 and 0.4b28 (released ?????????????????)
 =======================================================================
 
 Changes between versions 0.4b27 and 0.4b28 (released ?????????????????)
 =======================================================================


@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ Changes between versions 0.4b27 and 0.4b28 (released ?????????????????)
        headers/architecture combination. Thanks to Bdale Garbee
        <bdale@gag.com> for reporting the bug.
 
        headers/architecture combination. Thanks to Bdale Garbee
        <bdale@gag.com> for reporting the bug.
 

+6.     Added the appropriate error message when dump fails to
+       open the output file for writing. Thanks to Amith Varghese
+       <amithv@yahoo.com> for reporting this bug.
+

 Changes between versions 0.4b26 and 0.4b27 (released February 15, 2002)
 =======================================================================
 
 Changes between versions 0.4b26 and 0.4b27 (released February 15, 2002)
 =======================================================================
 

diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 5658e4cf6c3de1eaf693739a36f6c8e49a712b43..417306cb43e8c4ada5deb576afb303b612e4a424 100644 (file)
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Id: THANKS,v 1.54 2002/02/25 13:54:52 stelian Exp $
+$Id: THANKS,v 1.55 2002/03/27 16:48:38 stelian Exp $

 
 Dump and restore were written by the people of the CSRG at the University
 of California, Berkeley.
 
 Dump and restore were written by the people of the CSRG at the University
 of California, Berkeley.


@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ Mike Tibor            tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu
 Erik Troan             ewt@redhat.com
 Theodore Y. Ts'o       tytso@valinux.com
 Stephen Tweedie                sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk
 Erik Troan             ewt@redhat.com
 Theodore Y. Ts'o       tytso@valinux.com
 Stephen Tweedie                sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk

+Amith Varghese         amithv@yahoo.com

 Daniel Veillard                Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr
 Jason Venner           jason@idiom.com
 Christian Weisgerber   naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de
 Daniel Veillard                Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr
 Jason Venner           jason@idiom.com
 Christian Weisgerber   naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de

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[] =
 
 #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>
 #endif /* not lint */
 
 #include <config.h>


@@ -872,7 +872,8 @@ restore_check_point:
                                  OPEN(tape, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666))) < 0)
 #endif
                    {
                                  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);
                }
                        if (!query("Do you want to retry the open?"))
                                dumpabort(0);
                }