If you pass scripts/get_maintainer.pl the name of a FIFO or other exciting object (/dev/stdin, for example), it would falsely print "file not found". Instead: stat the object rather than using -f so that we do not mind if the object is not a file; and print the errno value in the error message.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <[email protected]> CC: Thomas Huth <[email protected]> CC: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> CC: Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]> CC: Anthony PERARD <[email protected]> --- v6: New patch in this version of the series --- scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl index 07369aa..43fb5f5 100755 --- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl +++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl @@ -381,8 +381,8 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) { ##if $file is a directory and it lacks a trailing slash, add one if ((-d $file)) { $file =~ s@([^/])$@$1/@; - } elsif (!(-f $file)) { - die "$P: file '${file}' not found\n"; + } elsif (!(stat $file)) { + die "$P: file '${file}' not found: $!\n"; } } if ($from_filename) { -- 2.1.4
