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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1998-11-15 17:35:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1998-11-15 17:35:34 +0000 |
| commit | 82a4c5fa91b9e876712b8944161075757da1dbb7 (patch) | |
| tree | db2cc47fbc5011e46c3a5f7a9f3d70850d4e3716 /lib/error.c | |
| parent | ce9b1d88d92e9b1c321fee165b135c277bd2dabd (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-82a4c5fa91b9e876712b8944161075757da1dbb7.tar.gz | |
(error): Don't use strerror_r's return value.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/error.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/error.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/error.c b/lib/error.c index 83998bb08b..4eff5d0f9d 100644 --- a/lib/error.c +++ b/lib/error.c @@ -152,7 +152,10 @@ error (status, errnum, message, va_alist) { #if defined HAVE_STRERROR_R || defined _LIBC char errbuf[1024]; - fprintf (stderr, ": %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'. */ + __strerror_r (errnum, errbuf, sizeof errbuf); + fprintf (stderr, ": %s", errbuf); #else fprintf (stderr, ": %s", strerror (errnum)); #endif |