X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=daemon%2Fproto.c;h=0002d80ab917f10009b109361eb01279c4efc4dc;hb=4c50f4c38d9a50fbf983c79dd208d1b1598fef8a;hp=e3ff9e9d0e2af21d945aa1e3126cf7592ecc1cac;hpb=50c239c045675c7480d88bf10857f3e85c3385d3;p=libguestfs.git

diff --git a/daemon/proto.c b/daemon/proto.c
index e3ff9e9..0002d80 100644
--- a/daemon/proto.c
+++ b/daemon/proto.c
@@ -195,12 +195,11 @@ reply_with_error (const char *fs, ...)
 }
 
 void
-reply_with_perror (const char *fs, ...)
+reply_with_perror_errno (int err, const char *fs, ...)
 {
   char buf1[GUESTFS_ERROR_LEN];
   char buf2[GUESTFS_ERROR_LEN];
   va_list args;
-  int err = errno;
 
   va_start (args, fs);
   vsnprintf (buf1, sizeof buf1, fs, args);
@@ -290,7 +289,7 @@ reply (xdrproc_t xdrp, char *ret)
      * we want to return an error message instead. (RHBZ#509597).
      */
     if (!(*xdrp) (&xdr, ret)) {
-      reply_with_perror ("guestfsd: failed to encode reply body\n");
+      reply_with_error ("guestfsd: failed to encode reply body\n(maybe the reply exceeds the maximum message size in the protocol?)");
       xdr_destroy (&xdr);
       return;
     }