Hello Nick, On 1/20/20 5:58 PM, Nick Shipp wrote: > fprintf may have overridden errno before perror could print it in this > example. Thanks. Patch applied. Cheers, Michael > --- > man7/inotify.7 | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man7/inotify.7 b/man7/inotify.7 > index c052acfe6..995a3116f 100644 > --- a/man7/inotify.7 > +++ b/man7/inotify.7 > @@ -1045,8 +1045,8 @@ main(int argc, char* argv[]) > wd[i] = inotify_add_watch(fd, argv[i], > IN_OPEN | IN_CLOSE); > if (wd[i] == \-1) { > - fprintf(stderr, "Cannot watch '%s'\en", argv[i]); > - perror("inotify_add_watch"); > + fprintf(stderr, "Cannot watch '%s': %s\en", > + argv[i], strerror(errno)); > exit(EXIT_FAILURE); > } > } > -- > 2.25.0 > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/