On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 9:25 AM Bruno Haible via Gnulib discussion
list <bug-gnulib@gnu.org> wrote:
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> 2024-12-17 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
>
> xstdopen: Improve error message.
> * lib/xstdopen.c (xstdopen): Improve error message. Ignore the errno
> value.
>
> diff --git a/lib/xstdopen.c b/lib/xstdopen.c
> index 678c2a9d9f..b82f44f0a8 100644
> --- a/lib/xstdopen.c
> +++ b/lib/xstdopen.c
> @@ -31,5 +31,9 @@ xstdopen (void)
> {
> int stdopen_errno = stdopen ();
> if (stdopen_errno != 0)
> - error (exit_failure, stdopen_errno, _("standard file descriptors"));
> + /* Ignore stdopen_errno in the error message, since it may be misleading
> + (see stdopen.c). */
> + error (exit_failure, 0,
> + _("failed to open all three standard file descriptors; maybe %s
> or %s are not working right?"),
> + "/dev/null", "/dev/full");
> }
Nice. Thank you for fixing those things for both gzip and diffutils!
