From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 01:53:21 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (main): When asking for info on an explicit file name,
X-Git-Tag: TEXTUTILS-1_22l~19
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7565800a1155104559b5c02b73afc2e3b2aeda07;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(main): When asking for info on an explicit file name,
just warn rather than failing if the table of mounted filesystems
cannot be read.
---

diff --git a/src/df.c b/src/df.c
index 41b2b647a2..c505bb3bf3 100644
--- a/src/df.c
+++ b/src/df.c
@@ -753,7 +753,15 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
 			   || show_local_fs));
 
   if (mount_list == NULL)
-    error (1, errno, _("cannot read table of mounted filesystems"));
+    {
+      /* Couldn't read the table of mounted filesystems.
+	 Fail if df was invoked with no file name arguments;
+	 Otherwise, merely give a warning and proceed.  */
+      const char *warning = (optind == argc ? "" : _("Warning: "));
+      int status = (optind == argc ? 1 : 0);
+      error (status, errno,
+	     _("%scannot read table of mounted filesystems"), warning);
+    }
 
   if (require_sync)
     sync ();