From: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> Instead of always printing MISSING, we can switch on the errno value set by access() and print a more useful string. In this case, handle files we can't read by printing UNREADABLE, print MISSING on ENOENT, and print UNKNOWN for anything else. Fixes FS#22546. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> --- src/pacman/package.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/pacman/package.c b/src/pacman/package.c index 68b0693..77a5ee7 100644 --- a/src/pacman/package.c +++ b/src/pacman/package.c @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ #include <string.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <limits.h> +#include <errno.h> #include <wchar.h> #include <alpm.h> @@ -183,7 +184,16 @@ static const char *get_backup_file_status(const char *root, } free(md5sum); } else { - ret = "MISSING"; + switch(errno) { + case EACCES: + ret = "UNREADABLE"; + break; + case ENOENT: + ret = "MISSING"; + break; + default: + ret = "UNKNOWN"; + } } return(ret); } -- 1.7.3.5