/* GNU variant of strerror_r. */ /* FUNCTION <<strerror_r>>---convert error number to string and copy to buffer INDEX strerror_r ANSI_SYNOPSIS #include <string.h> #ifdef _GNU_SOURCE char *strerror_r(int <[errnum]>, char *<[buffer]>, size_t <[n]>); #else int strerror_r(int <[errnum]>, char *<[buffer]>, size_t <[n]>); #endif TRAD_SYNOPSIS #include <string.h> char *strerror_r(<[errnum]>, <[buffer]>, <[n]>) int <[errnum]>; char *<[buffer]>; size_t <[n]>; DESCRIPTION <<strerror_r>> converts the error number <[errnum]> into a string and copies the result into the supplied <[buffer]> for a length up to <[n]>, including the NUL terminator. The value of <[errnum]> is usually a copy of <<errno>>. If <<errnum>> is not a known error number, the result is the empty string. See <<strerror>> for how strings are mapped to <<errnum>>. RETURNS There are two variants: the GNU version always returns a NUL-terminated string, which is <[buffer]> if all went well, but which is another pointer if <[n]> was too small (leaving <[buffer]> untouched). If the return is not <[buffer]>, your application must not modify that string. The POSIX version returns 0 on success, <[EINVAL]> if <<errnum>> was not recognized, and <[ERANGE]> if <[n]> was too small. The variant chosen depends on macros that you define before inclusion of <<string.h>>. PORTABILITY <<strerror_r>> with a <[char *]> result is a GNU extension. <<strerror_r>> with an <[int]> result is required by POSIX 2001. This function is compliant only if <<_user_strerror>> is not provided, or if it is thread-safe and uses separate storage according to whether the second argument of that function is non-zero. For more details on <<_user_strerror>>, see the <<strerror>> documentation. POSIX states that the contents of <[buf]> are unspecified on error, although this implementation guarantees a NUL-terminated string for all except <[n]> of 0. POSIX recommends that unknown <[errnum]> result in a message including that value, however it is not a requirement and this implementation provides only an empty string (unless you provide <<_user_strerror>>). POSIX also recommends that unknown <[errnum]> fail with EINVAL even when providing such a message, however it is not a requirement and this implementation will return success if <<_user_strerror>> provided a non-empty alternate string without assigning into its third argument. <<strerror_r>> requires no supporting OS subroutines. */ #undef __STRICT_ANSI__ #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <errno.h> #include <string.h> #undef strerror_r /* For backwards-compatible linking, this must be the GNU signature; see xpg_strerror_r.c for the POSIX version. */ char * _DEFUN (strerror_r, (errnum, buffer, n), int errnum _AND char *buffer _AND size_t n) { char *error = _strerror_r (_REENT, errnum, 1, NULL); if (strlen (error) >= n) return error; return strcpy (buffer, error); }