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Diffstat (limited to 'extra/perror.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | extra/perror.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/extra/perror.c b/extra/perror.c index 69cd6f87aab..764f54eafe3 100644 --- a/extra/perror.c +++ b/extra/perror.c @@ -217,8 +217,11 @@ int main(int argc,char *argv[]) On some system, like NETWARE, strerror(unknown_error) returns a string 'Unknown Error'. To avoid printing it we try to find the error string by asking for an impossible big error message. + + On Solaris 2.8 it might return NULL */ - msg= strerror(10000); + if ((msg= strerror(10000)) == NULL) + msg= "Unknown Error"; /* Allocate a buffer for unknown_error since strerror always returns |