From 9c29a2ed35d884cda182cea74aee2a7ee614de93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:22:13 +0100
Subject: Give a better error message if writeFile fails due to permission
 issues

---
 perl/lib/Nix/Utils.pm | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'perl/lib/Nix/Utils.pm')

diff --git a/perl/lib/Nix/Utils.pm b/perl/lib/Nix/Utils.pm
index bc180e2a5..78d3db542 100644
--- a/perl/lib/Nix/Utils.pm
+++ b/perl/lib/Nix/Utils.pm
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ sub uniq {
 
 sub writeFile {
     my ($fn, $s) = @_;
-    open TMP, ">$fn" or die;
+    open TMP, ">$fn" or die "cannot create file `$fn': $!";
     print TMP "$s" or die;
     close TMP or die;
 }
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ sub writeFile {
 sub readFile {
     local $/ = undef;
     my ($fn) = @_;
-    open TMP, "<$fn" or die;
+    open TMP, "<$fn" or die "cannot open file `$fn': $!";
     my $s = <TMP>;
     close TMP or die;
     return $s;
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