diff -r bafde63c913a -r 61e30f257c15 mercurial/windows.py
--- a/mercurial/windows.py	Mon Sep 14 17:32:55 2009 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/windows.py	Wed Sep 16 16:01:37 2009 -0500
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     try:
         return osutil.posixfile(name, mode, buffering)
     except WindowsError, err:
-        raise IOError(err.errno, err.strerror)
+        raise IOError(err.errno, '%s: %s' % (name, err.strerror))
 posixfile.__doc__ = osutil.posixfile.__doc__
 
 class winstdout(object):