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| author | Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2008-02-13 16:52:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2008-02-13 16:52:00 +0000 |
| commit | d5fe880a57bc140f2e1469d2f1c75f815df94eff (patch) | |
| tree | 666b3f300bf6eebfd407df9b6d4a0192275eeb8e /libbb | |
| parent | 9d96af2e83a9519ac89ff0f8dae7f8478d33f581 (diff) | |
| download | busybox-d5fe880a57bc140f2e1469d2f1c75f815df94eff.tar.gz | |
cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470
Diffstat (limited to 'libbb')
| -rw-r--r-- | libbb/Config.in | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | libbb/copy_file.c | 12 |
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libbb/Config.in b/libbb/Config.in index 0ad4381d9..9389fe808 100644 --- a/libbb/Config.in +++ b/libbb/Config.in @@ -102,6 +102,21 @@ config FEATURE_EDITING_FANCY_PROMPT Setting this option allows for prompts to use things like \w and \$ and escape codes. +config FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE + bool "Give more precise messages when copy fails (cp, mv etc)" + default n + help + Error messages with this feature enabled: + $ cp file /does_not_exist/file + cp: cannot create '/does_not_exist/file': Path does not exist + $ cp file /vmlinuz/file + cp: cannot stat '/vmlinuz/file': Path has non-directory component + If this feature is not enabled, they will be, respectively: + cp: cannot remove '/does_not_exist/file': No such file or directory + cp: cannot stat '/vmlinuz/file': Not a directory + respectively. + This will cost you ~60 bytes. + config FEATURE_COPYBUF_KB int "Copy buffer size, in kilobytes" range 1 1024 diff --git a/libbb/copy_file.c b/libbb/copy_file.c index 3da8a3531..d37d51562 100644 --- a/libbb/copy_file.c +++ b/libbb/copy_file.c @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ // for POSIX mode to give reasonable error message static int ask_and_unlink(const char *dest, int flags) { + int e = errno; #if DO_POSIX_CP if (!(flags & (FILEUTILS_FORCE|FILEUTILS_INTERACTIVE))) { // Either it exists, or the *path* doesnt exist @@ -50,7 +51,16 @@ static int ask_and_unlink(const char *dest, int flags) return 0; // not allowed to overwrite } if (unlink(dest) < 0) { - bb_perror_msg("cannot remove '%s'", dest); +#if ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE + if (e == errno && e == ENOENT) { + /* e == ENOTDIR is similar: path has non-dir component, + * but in this case we don't even reach copy_file() */ + bb_error_msg("cannot create '%s': Path does not exist", dest); + return -1; // error + } +#endif + errno = e; + bb_perror_msg("cannot create '%s'", dest); return -1; // error } return 1; // ok (to try again) |