Re: policycoreutils: The error message on forkpty() failure is not clear or useful.

[Joshua Brindle <method@manicmethod.com>]

Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
>
>          This has been reported against the Debian BTS.
>
>          The current error message when forkpty() fails is not clear or
>   useful. (Arguably, the erro message in the child branch cold also be
>   improved)  The following patch makes indicate what went wrong.  Probably
>   something better than this could be devised, but this is still a lot
>   better than the current code.
>
> --- open_init_pty.c.bak 2009-02-16 21:47:28.000000000 +1100
> +++ open_init_pty.c     2009-02-16 21:48:06.000000000 +1100
> @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@
>          }
>
>          if (child_pid<  0) {
> -               perror("Fork:");
> +               perror("forkpty():");
>                  fflush(stdout);
>                  fflush(stderr);
>                  exit(EX_OSERR);
>
>          manoj
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515710


Merged in policycoreutils 2.0.74

git formatted patches preferred, or at least a diff from the bottom of 
the tree.

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