commit af84daa654c8168874de37340a92ec8db7d74426
author cliechti <cliechti@f19166aa-fa4f-0410-85c2-fa1106f25c8a> Thu Oct 10 23:57:00 2013 +0000
committer cliechti <cliechti@f19166aa-fa4f-0410-85c2-fa1106f25c8a> Thu Oct 10 23:57:00 2013 +0000
tree 5a32355f8ad8d1ad3bc3c06ef80309cd3ff7607c
parent 387251a3744ff6d116fa5652bdd120b8a8424143

[Bug pyserial:141] open: Pass errno from IOError to SerialException

pyserial/serial/serialposix.py

diff --git a/pyserial/serial/serialposix.py b/pyserial/serial/serialposix.py
index 1b7fe86..27c1328 100644
--- a/pyserial/serial/serialposix.py
+++ b/pyserial/serial/serialposix.py
@@ -288,9 +288,9 @@
         # open
         try:
             self.fd = os.open(self.portstr, os.O_RDWR|os.O_NOCTTY|os.O_NONBLOCK)
-        except Exception, msg:
+        except IOError, msg:
             self.fd = None
-            raise SerialException("could not open port %s: %s" % (self._port, msg))
+            raise SerialException(msg.errno, "could not open port %s: %s" % (self._port, msg))
         #~ fcntl.fcntl(self.fd, FCNTL.F_SETFL, 0)  # set blocking
 
         try: