config.c: rewrite ENODEV into EISDIR when mmap fails

If we try to mmap a directory, we'll get ENODEV. This
translates to "no such device" for the user, which is not
very helpful. Since we've just fstat()'d the file, we can
easily check whether the problem was a directory to give a
better message.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index d348d79..6551de3 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -2051,6 +2051,8 @@ int git_config_set_multivar_in_file(const char *config_filename,
 		contents = xmmap_gently(NULL, contents_sz, PROT_READ,
 					MAP_PRIVATE, in_fd, 0);
 		if (contents == MAP_FAILED) {
+			if (errno == ENODEV && S_ISDIR(st.st_mode))
+				errno = EISDIR;
 			error("unable to mmap '%s': %s",
 			      config_filename, strerror(errno));
 			ret = CONFIG_INVALID_FILE;