From 8c4cde617955e142623f8ab0f9f3e5a16324d728 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sobomax Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 12:35:17 +0000 Subject: Our strerror_r(3) returns int, not char *. This fixes bogus error messages like "Cannot stat: (null)" Reported by: bde, kris --- contrib/tar/lib/error.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'contrib') diff --git a/contrib/tar/lib/error.c b/contrib/tar/lib/error.c index 2153194..e91e68a 100644 --- a/contrib/tar/lib/error.c +++ b/contrib/tar/lib/error.c @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ /* Written by David MacKenzie . */ +/* $FreeBSD$ */ + #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H # include #endif @@ -188,7 +190,10 @@ error_tail (int status, int errnum, const char *message, va_list args) { # if defined HAVE_STRERROR_R || _LIBC char errbuf[1024]; - char *s = __strerror_r (errnum, errbuf, sizeof errbuf); + /* Don't use __strerror_r's return value because on some systems + (at least DEC UNIX 4.0[A-D]) strerror_r returns `int'. */ + (void)__strerror_r (errnum, errbuf, sizeof errbuf); + char *s = errbuf; # if _LIBC && USE_IN_LIBIO if (_IO_fwide (stderr, 0) > 0) __fwprintf (stderr, L": %s", s); -- cgit v1.1