From: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:48:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added the appropriate error message when dump fails to open the output file.
X-Git-Tag: release_0_4b28~9
X-Git-Url: https://git.wh0rd.org/?p=dump.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=1df5d2e8371b4c1dd570fda41ec418b6a5836d1a

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

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index b98f214..d17b090 100644
--- 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 ?????????????????)
 =======================================================================
@@ -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.
 
+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)
 =======================================================================
 
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 5658e4c..417306c 100644
--- 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.
@@ -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
+Amith Varghese		amithv@yahoo.com
 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 39d8b4c..e81a58d 100644
--- 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);
 		}