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authorjilles <jilles@FreeBSD.org>2011-04-05 21:56:05 +0000
committerjilles <jilles@FreeBSD.org>2011-04-05 21:56:05 +0000
commitc902a38c4a1577f5b9a27832540f1a955ea78038 (patch)
tree9ba493ad554e8b08e9a294a55e6d6e571583a3e2 /lib
parentbb9f2459b8a1d6a5aca6101af345c3ed3ccabc83 (diff)
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Allow strerror(0) and strerror_r(0, ...).
Of course, strerror_r() may still fail with ERANGE. Although the POSIX specification said this could fail with EINVAL and doing this likely indicates invalid use of errno, most other implementations permitted it, various POSIX testsuites require it to work (matching the older sys_errlist array) and apparently some applications depend on it. PR: standards/151316 MFC after: 1 week
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/errlst.c2
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/string/strerror.35
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/string/strerror.c2
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/errlst.c b/lib/libc/gen/errlst.c
index b105cc8..d817823 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/errlst.c
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/errlst.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ __FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
#include <stdio.h>
const char *const sys_errlist[] = {
- "Undefined error: 0", /* 0 - ENOERROR */
+ "No error: 0", /* 0 - ENOERROR */
"Operation not permitted", /* 1 - EPERM */
"No such file or directory", /* 2 - ENOENT */
"No such process", /* 3 - ESRCH */
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strerror.3 b/lib/libc/string/strerror.3
index 2d6d206..0ec6cb0 100644
--- a/lib/libc/string/strerror.3
+++ b/lib/libc/string/strerror.3
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
.\" @(#)strerror.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd October 12, 2004
+.Dd April 5, 2011
.Dt STRERROR 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ the range 0 <
.Fa errnum
<
.Fa sys_nerr .
+The number 0 is also recognized, although applications that take advantage of
+this are likely to use unspecified values of
+.Va errno .
.Pp
If insufficient storage is provided in
.Fa strerrbuf
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strerror.c b/lib/libc/string/strerror.c
index 890ed21..57d253d 100644
--- a/lib/libc/string/strerror.c
+++ b/lib/libc/string/strerror.c
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ strerror_r(int errnum, char *strerrbuf, size_t buflen)
catd = catopen("libc", NL_CAT_LOCALE);
#endif
- if (errnum < 1 || errnum >= sys_nerr) {
+ if (errnum < 0 || errnum >= sys_nerr) {
errstr(errnum,
#if defined(NLS)
catgets(catd, 1, 0xffff, UPREFIX),
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