commit fff04e3014f3ba516544be4ed345ddcf8ddac7fb
author Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@google.com> Mon Mar 17 10:36:46 2014 -0700
committer Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@google.com> Tue Mar 18 09:43:03 2014 -0700
tree 3c340f4c2ddaa974620fd4b92454d290e2e077c2
parent 2beed9419443021d340690a0f36eea9baca44fec

logcat: improve error messages

Bug: 13464830
Change-Id: Ia8783fa2422e444bcdfca8d0153cf6e7634612bb

logcat/logcat.cpp

diff --git a/logcat/logcat.cpp b/logcat/logcat.cpp
index 7bf91a9..5960609 100644
--- a/logcat/logcat.cpp
+++ b/logcat/logcat.cpp
@@ -699,7 +699,7 @@
             int ret;
             ret = android_logger_clear(dev->logger);
             if (ret) {
-                perror("clearLog");
+                perror("failed to clear the log");
                 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
             }
         }
@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@
 #ifdef USERDEBUG_BUILD
 
         if (setLogSize && android_logger_set_log_size(dev->logger, setLogSize)) {
-            perror("setLogSize");
+            perror("failed to set the log size");
             exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
         }
 
@@ -718,13 +718,13 @@
 
             size = android_logger_get_log_size(dev->logger);
             if (size < 0) {
-                perror("getLogSize");
+                perror("failed to get the log size");
                 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
             }
 
             readable = android_logger_get_log_readable_size(dev->logger);
             if (readable < 0) {
-                perror("getLogReadableSize");
+                perror("failed to get the readable log size");
                 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
             }
 
@@ -748,7 +748,7 @@
         free(buf);
 
         if (ret) {
-            perror("setPruneList");
+            perror("failed to set the prune list");
             exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
         }
     }
@@ -792,7 +792,7 @@
         }
 
         if (!buf) {
-            perror("response read");
+            perror("failed to read data");
             exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
         }
 
@@ -859,7 +859,7 @@
                 fprintf(stderr, "read: unexpected length.\n");
                 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
             }
-            perror("logcat read");
+            perror("logcat read failure");
             exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
         }