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Subject[PATCH 2/2] objtool: Improve error message for bad file argument
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If a nonexistent file is supplied to objtool, it complains with a
non-helpful error:

open: No such file or directory

Improve it to:

objtool: Can't open 'foo': No such file or directory

Reported-by: Markus <M4rkusXXL@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
---
tools/objtool/elf.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c
index 24460155c82c..c1c338661699 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/elf.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
+#include <errno.h>

#include "elf.h"
#include "warn.h"
@@ -358,7 +359,8 @@ struct elf *elf_open(const char *name, int flags)

elf->fd = open(name, flags);
if (elf->fd == -1) {
- perror("open");
+ fprintf(stderr, "objtool: Can't open '%s': %s\n",
+ name, strerror(errno));
goto err;
}

--
2.14.3
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