From: Kornilios Kourtis <kornilios@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> This patch improves the error seen by the user by setting errno in cus__load_files(). Otherwise, we get a "No such file or directory" error which might be confusing. Before the patch, using a bogus file: $ ./pahole -J ./vmlinux-5.3.18-24.102-default.debug pahole: ./vmlinux-5.3.18-24.102-default.debug: No such file or directory $ ls ./vmlinux-5.3.18-24.102-default.debug /home/kkourt/src/hubble-fgs/vmlinux-5.3.18-24.102-default.debug After the patch: $ ./pahole -J ./vmlinux-5.3.18-24.102-default.debug pahole: ./vmlinux-5.3.18-24.102-default.debug: Unknown error -22 Which is not very helpful, but less confusing. Signed-off-by: Kornilios Kourtis <kornilios@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- dwarves.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/dwarves.c b/dwarves.c index 89b58ef..5d0b420 100644 --- a/dwarves.c +++ b/dwarves.c @@ -2399,8 +2399,11 @@ int cus__load_files(struct cus *cus, struct conf_load *conf, int i = 0; while (filenames[i] != NULL) { - if (cus__load_file(cus, conf, filenames[i])) + int err = cus__load_file(cus, conf, filenames[i]); + if (err) { + errno = err; return -++i; + } ++i; } -- 2.25.1