bug#13409: [patch] make some error messages clearer

[Pádraig Brady]

On 01/10/2013 07:20 PM, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Several error messages in some of the utilities say things
> like "reading %s".  They sound like progress messages, and
> translators might be tempted to translate them as if they
> said "busy reading %s" -- whereas I think they are trying
> to say "error while reading %s".
>
> Attached patch suggests improvements for a bunch of those
> messages.

Even outside the translation context, this is a net improvement.

cmd_old: accessing 'file': Permission denied
cmd_new: failed to access 'file': Permission denied

I'll apply this in a while.

thanks!
Pádraig.