From 7d4c79bc8c4c355a4dce7b2049b7a7a37d8e347f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen <sortie@maxsi.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 15:52:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Improved error message upon line reading failure in head(1)
 and tail(1).

---
 utils/tail.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/utils/tail.cpp b/utils/tail.cpp
index c73ffc4d..cb0ce0ee 100644
--- a/utils/tail.cpp
+++ b/utils/tail.cpp
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ bool processfp(const char* inputname, FILE* fp)
 		if ( linelen < 0 )
 		{
 			if ( feof(fp) ) { break; }
-			error(1, errno, "%s", inputname);
+			error(1, errno, "error reading line: %s", inputname);
 		}
 		if ( specialleading )
 		{