Improve some error messages.

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/metaentry.c b/metaentry.c
index 257f86d..ac2960a 100644
--- a/metaentry.c
+++ b/metaentry.c
@@ -352,7 +352,8 @@ mentries_tofile(const struct metaentry *mlist, const char *path)
 
 	to = fopen(path, "w");
 	if (!to) {
-		perror("fopen");
+		msg(MSG_CRITICAL, "Failed to open %s: %s\n",
+		    path, strerror(errno));
 		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 	}
 
@@ -392,12 +393,14 @@ mentries_fromfile(struct metaentry **mlist, const char *path)
 
 	fd = open(path, O_RDONLY);
 	if (fd < 0) {
-		perror("open");
+		msg(MSG_CRITICAL, "Failed to open %s: %s\n",
+		    path, strerror(errno));
 		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 	}
 
 	if (fstat(fd, &sbuf)) {
-		perror("fstat");
+		msg(MSG_CRITICAL, "Failed to stat %s: %s\n",
+		    path, strerror(errno));
 		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 	}
 
diff --git a/utils.c b/utils.c
index de4993e..7b8e784 100644
--- a/utils.c
+++ b/utils.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include <stdint.h>
 #include <stdarg.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
+#include <errno.h>
 
 #include "utils.h"
 
@@ -105,7 +106,8 @@ void
 xfwrite(const void *ptr, size_t size, FILE *stream)
 {
 	if (fwrite(ptr, size, 1, stream) != 1) {
-		perror("fwrite");
+		msg(MSG_CRITICAL, "Failed to write to file: %s\n",
+		    strerror(errno));
 		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 	}
 }