textual: grammarize and harmonize the stat error message

[thirdparty/util-linux.git] / term-utils / mesg.c

diff --git a/term-utils/mesg.c b/term-utils/mesg.c
index a3892871cf317eff9191d4083784e361c8ee7cc8..3cb1d24e6dfcc0169cdd8baba3064a1f8d2a591d 100644 (file)
--- a/term-utils/mesg.c
+++ b/term-utils/mesg.c
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
                err(MESG_EXIT_FAILURE, _("ttyname failed"));
 
        if (stat(tty, &sb) < 0)
-               err(MESG_EXIT_FAILURE, _("stat failed %s"), tty);
+               err(MESG_EXIT_FAILURE, _("stat of %s failed"), tty);
 
        if (!*argv) {
                if (sb.st_mode & (S_IWGRP | S_IWOTH)) {