Patch from Denis Vlasenko to add xstat() and use it.

git-svn-id: svn://busybox.net/trunk/busybox@14530 69ca8d6d-28ef-0310-b511-8ec308f3f277

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libbb/xstat.c b/libbb/xstat.c
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index 000000000..ca6686403
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libbb/xstat.c
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+/*
+ * xstat.c - a stat() which dies on failure with meaningful error message
+ */
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include "libbb.h"
+
+void xstat(const char *name, struct stat *stat_buf)
+{
+        if (stat(name, stat_buf))
+                bb_perror_msg_and_die("Can't stat '%s'", name);
+}