[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] print appropriate error when failing to open a file

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 04:17, Corey Hickey wrote:
> MPlayer prints "File not found:" regardless of the actual reason it
> fails to open() a file (access denied, etc.). The attached patch makes
> MPlayer print a reason for every relevant error I found in 'man 2 open'.
> 
> I've tested as many of these as I can:
> EACCES
> ELOOP
> ENAMETOOLONG
> ENXIO
> ENOENT
> ENOTDIR
> 
> The rest should be fine, unless there are portability considerations I
> don't know about.

These are supposed to be already translated in glibc, so we're basically
duplicating their work. However, until we switch to gettext, I guess it's
ok to leave it as you propose.

R.

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