From fe85271fb6090e58b36e182ce3e20a388f0ca006 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 22:52:53 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] core: nicer message when inotify watches are exhausted inotify_add_watch returns ENOSPC, which translates to "No space left on device", which is misleading. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73628 (cherry picked from commit 18abe7bd3e13525b257da69ac49ff7841c289567) --- src/core/path.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/core/path.c b/src/core/path.c index 20e454d96f..f54c77f6c3 100644 --- a/src/core/path.c +++ b/src/core/path.c @@ -99,7 +99,8 @@ int path_spec_watch(PathSpec *s, sd_event_io_handler_t handler) { break; } - log_warning("Failed to add watch on %s: %m", s->path); + log_warning("Failed to add watch on %s: %s", s->path, + errno == ENOSPC ? "too many watches" : strerror(-r)); r = -errno; if (cut) *cut = tmp;