Move up error handling code to preserve the errno coming from ioctl(), before it may be changed by close(). Signed-off-by: Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@xxxxxx> --- tools/iio/iio_event_monitor.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/iio/iio_event_monitor.c b/tools/iio/iio_event_monitor.c index f6fdab4..578390d 100644 --- a/tools/iio/iio_event_monitor.c +++ b/tools/iio/iio_event_monitor.c @@ -275,15 +275,17 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) } ret = ioctl(fd, IIO_GET_EVENT_FD_IOCTL, &event_fd); - - close(fd); - if (ret == -1 || event_fd == -1) { ret = -errno; fprintf(stdout, "Failed to retrieve event fd\n"); + if (close(fd) == -1) + perror("Failed to close character device file"); + goto error_free_chrdev_name; } + close(fd); + while (true) { ret = read(event_fd, &event, sizeof(event)); if (ret == -1) { -- 2.3.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html