Outputting the message first followed by the strerror makes the error messages more readable. Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/cyclictest/cyclictest.c | 4 ++-- src/lib/error.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/cyclictest/cyclictest.c b/src/cyclictest/cyclictest.c index 4547831fedc9..01dfc75fd70c 100644 --- a/src/cyclictest/cyclictest.c +++ b/src/cyclictest/cyclictest.c @@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ static int raise_soft_prio(int policy, const struct sched_param *param) err = getrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, &rlim); if (err) { err = errno; - err_msg_n(err, "WARN: getrlimit failed\n"); + err_msg_n(err, "WARN: getrlimit failed"); return err; } @@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ static int raise_soft_prio(int policy, const struct sched_param *param) err = setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, &rlim); if (err) { err = errno; - err_msg_n(err, "WARN: setrlimit failed\n"); + err_msg_n(err, "WARN: setrlimit failed"); /* return err; */ } } else { diff --git a/src/lib/error.c b/src/lib/error.c index 1b5de5dabeaf..5eb63527659c 100644 --- a/src/lib/error.c +++ b/src/lib/error.c @@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ void fatal(char *fmt, ...) void err_doit(int err, const char *fmt, va_list ap) { - if (err) - fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", strerror(err)); vfprintf(stderr, fmt, ap); + if (err) + fprintf(stderr, ": %s\n", strerror(err)); return; } -- 1.8.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html