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-rw-r--r--text-utils/tailf.c20
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/text-utils/tailf.c b/text-utils/tailf.c
index e10243f9..5b1d1a4e 100644
--- a/text-utils/tailf.c
+++ b/text-utils/tailf.c
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <malloc.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <string.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include "nls.h"
@@ -50,8 +52,8 @@ static void tailf(const char *filename, int lines)
int i;
if (!(str = fopen(filename, "r"))) {
- fprintf(stderr, _("Cannot open \"%s\" for read\n"), filename);
- perror("");
+ fprintf(stderr, _("Cannot open \"%s\" for read: %s\n"),
+ filename, strerror(errno));
exit(1);
}
@@ -83,7 +85,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
size_t osize, nsize;
FILE *str;
const char *filename;
- int count;
+ int count, wcount;
setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
@@ -102,13 +104,17 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
nsize = filesize(filename);
if (nsize != osize) {
if (!(str = fopen(filename, "r"))) {
- fprintf(stderr, _("Cannot open \"%s\" for read\n"), filename);
- perror(argv[0]);
+ fprintf(stderr, _("Cannot open \"%s\" for read: %s\n"),
+ filename, strerror(errno));
exit(1);
}
if (!fseek(str, osize, SEEK_SET))
- while ((count = fread(buffer, 1, sizeof(buffer), str)) > 0)
- fwrite(buffer, 1, count, stdout);
+ while ((count = fread(buffer, 1, sizeof(buffer), str)) > 0) {
+ wcount = fwrite(buffer, 1, count, stdout);
+ if (wcount != count)
+ fprintf (stderr, _("Incomplete write to \"%s\" (written %d, expected %d)\n"),
+ filename, wcount, count);
+ }
fflush(stdout);
fclose(str);
osize = nsize;