| Message ID | 1520530757-4477-12-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | New, archived |
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diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl index 07369aa..43fb5f5 100755 --- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl +++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl @@ -381,8 +381,8 @@ foreach my $file (@ARGV) { ##if $file is a directory and it lacks a trailing slash, add one if ((-d $file)) { $file =~ s@([^/])$@$1/@; - } elsif (!(-f $file)) { - die "$P: file '${file}' not found\n"; + } elsif (!(stat $file)) { + die "$P: file '${file}' not found: $!\n"; } } if ($from_filename) {
If you pass scripts/get_maintainer.pl the name of a FIFO or other exciting object (/dev/stdin, for example), it would falsely print "file not found". Instead: stat the object rather than using -f so that we do not mind if the object is not a file; and print the errno value in the error message. Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> CC: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> CC: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com> --- v6: New patch in this version of the series --- scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)