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-rw-r--r--winsup/cygwin/errno.cc7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/errno.cc b/winsup/cygwin/errno.cc
index 0643647b2..fc9a455f0 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/errno.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/errno.cc
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ extern "C" {
const NO_COPY char __declspec(dllexport) * const _sys_errlist[]=
{
/* NOERROR 0 */ "No error",
-/* EPERM 1 */ "Not super-user",
+/* EPERM 1 */ "Operation not permitted",
/* ENOENT 2 */ "No such file or directory",
/* ESRCH 3 */ "No such process",
/* EINTR 4 */ "Interrupted system call",
@@ -308,10 +308,13 @@ extern "C" char *
strerror (int errnum)
{
const char *error;
+ if (errnum < _sys_nerr)
+ error = _sys_errlist [errnum];
+ else
switch (errnum)
{
case EPERM:
- error = "Not owner";
+ error = "Operation not permitted";
break;
case ENOENT:
error = "No such file or directory";