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| author | George David <george@miamisalsa.com> | 2010-06-21 16:16:58 -0600 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2010-06-21 15:48:29 -0700 |
| commit | 316baa765d85a91cd89585ea5cf913bcd2e478a5 (patch) | |
| tree | 23cde83416b58cb357a0b9f3df74a519c9e8f4d5 /linux/syslinux.c | |
| parent | 2f712545dd82f5906ec930b643d44e8b12295682 (diff) | |
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linux installer: better error message for missing /tmp
Our linux distribution at my job didn't include a /tmp directory. When ever
I tried to use syslinux, I would get the following error:
./syslinux: No such file or directory
I modified the code to report this:
./syslinux: Cannot access the /tmp/ directory.
This would have helped me a lot rather than having to download the source
and run it through the debugger to figure out that my /tmp/ directory was
missing. I suspect if this ever happens again I'll know exactly what was
wrong, but hopefully it will help someone else.
Diffstat (limited to 'linux/syslinux.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | linux/syslinux.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/linux/syslinux.c b/linux/syslinux.c index 7152d2bc..fa500cf7 100644 --- a/linux/syslinux.c +++ b/linux/syslinux.c @@ -344,7 +344,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) Make a temp dir and pass all the gunky options to mount. */ if (chdir(_PATH_TMP)) { - perror(program); + fprintf(stderr, "%s: Cannot access the %s directory.\n", + program, _PATH_TMP); exit(1); } #define TMP_MODE (S_IXUSR|S_IWUSR|S_IXGRP|S_IWGRP|S_IWOTH|S_IXOTH|S_ISVTX) |