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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Subject: Re: [conntrack-tools PATCH] sync-mode: print errno message on failure
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:45:22 +0200
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To: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo@debian.org>
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Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo@debian.org> wrote:
> I have observed this message several times:
> 
>  [ERROR] can't open channel socket
>  [ERROR] initialization failed
> 
> which is very difficult to understand.
> 
> The errno message should help this to be a bit more explicit.
> With this patch, in the case of wrong interface:
> 
>  [ERROR] can't open channel socket: No such device

Indeed, much better.

Applied, thanks Arturo.