[PATCH 14/17] Improve error message when packfile mmap fails.

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Dec 23, 2006, 07:34 UTC
Message-ID: <20061223073441.GO9837@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <53b67707929c7f051f6d384c5d96e653bfa8419c.1166857884.git.spearce@spearce.org>

If we are unable to mmap the a region of the packfile with the mmap() system call there may be a good reason why, such as a closed file descriptor or out of address space. Reporting the system level error message can help to debug such problems.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
---
 sha1_file.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
index fab2ab0..7872c2d 100644
--- a/sha1_file.c
+++ b/sha1_file.c
@@ -590,7 +590,9 @@ unsigned char* use_pack(struct packed_git *p,
 				PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE,
 				p->pack_fd, win->offset);
 			if (win->base == MAP_FAILED)
-				die("packfile %s cannot be mapped.", p->pack_name);
+				die("packfile %s cannot be mapped: %s",
+					p->pack_name,
+					strerror(errno));
 			win->next = p->windows;
 			p->windows = win;
 		}

-- 
1.4.4.3.g87d8