In Tethereal:

	When capturing, report errors trying to create the output file
	with "file_open_error_message()".

	Make the "for_writing" argument to "file_open_error_message()" a
	"gboolean", as it's either TRUE (if the file is being opened for
	writing) or FALSE (if it's being opened for reading).

	Report EISDIR as "XXX is a directory (folder), not a file.".

When checking whether an "open()" of a capture file succeeded, check
whether "open()" returns a negative number, not whether it returns 0.

In "wtap_open_offline()", if the file to be opened is a directory,
return EISDIR, not WTAP_ERR_NOT_REGULAR_FILE, so that the error message
can say "that's a directory, not a file".

If "wtap_open_offline()" returns WTAP_ERR_NOT_REGULAR_FILE, don't just
say the file is "invalid", say it's a "special file" or socket or some
other weird type of file.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=2144

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/file.c b/file.c
index 7d8d6d2447..933caceb4c 100644
--- a/file.c
+++ b/file.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* file.c
  * File I/O routines
  *
- * $Id: file.c,v 1.199 2000/07/20 05:09:45 guy Exp $
+ * $Id: file.c,v 1.200 2000/07/20 09:39:19 guy Exp $
  *
  * Ethereal - Network traffic analyzer
  * By Gerald Combs <gerald@zing.org>
@@ -1819,7 +1819,7 @@ file_open_error_message(int err, gboolean for_writing)
   switch (err) {
 
   case WTAP_ERR_NOT_REGULAR_FILE:
-    errmsg = "The file \"%s\" is invalid.";
+    errmsg = "The file \"%s\" is a \"special file\" or socket or other non-regular file.";
     break;
 
   case WTAP_ERR_FILE_UNKNOWN_FORMAT: