From fe85271fb6090e58b36e182ce3e20a388f0ca006 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>

Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 22:52:53 -0400

Subject: [PATCH] core: nicer message when inotify watches are exhausted

inotify_add_watch returns ENOSPC, which translates to

"No space left on device", which is misleading.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73628

(cherry picked from commit 18abe7bd3e13525b257da69ac49ff7841c289567)

---

 src/core/path.c | 3 ++-

 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/core/path.c b/src/core/path.c

index 20e454d96f..f54c77f6c3 100644

--- a/src/core/path.c

+++ b/src/core/path.c

@@ -99,7 +99,8 @@ int path_spec_watch(PathSpec *s, sd_event_io_handler_t handler) {

                                 break;

                         }

-                        log_warning("Failed to add watch on %s: %m", s->path);

+                        log_warning("Failed to add watch on %s: %s", s->path,

+                                    errno == ENOSPC ? "too many watches" : strerror(-r));

                         r = -errno;

                         if (cut)

                                 *cut = tmp;