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Diffstat (limited to 'src/bin/psql/command.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/bin/psql/command.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/bin/psql/command.c b/src/bin/psql/command.c index 638d8cb5c31..d60a661543d 100644 --- a/src/bin/psql/command.c +++ b/src/bin/psql/command.c @@ -265,10 +265,13 @@ exec_command(const char *cmd, #ifndef WIN32 struct passwd *pw; + errno = 0; /* clear errno before call */ pw = getpwuid(geteuid()); if (!pw) { - psql_error("could not get home directory: %s\n", strerror(errno)); + psql_error("could not get home directory for user id %d: %s\n", + (int) geteuid(), errno ? + strerror(errno) : "user does not exist"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } dir = pw->pw_dir; |