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diff --git a/src/support/strerror.c b/src/support/strerror.c
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+/* DO NOT EDIT: automatically built by dist/api_err.py. */
+
+#include "wt_internal.h"
+
+/*
+ * wiredtiger_strerror --
+ *	Return a string for any error value.
+ */
+char *
+wiredtiger_strerror(int error)
+{
+	static char errbuf[64];
+	char *p;
+
+	if (error == 0)
+		return ("Successful return: 0");
+
+	switch (error) {
+	case WT_ERROR:
+		return ("WT_ERROR: non-specific WiredTiger error");
+	case WT_NOTFOUND:
+		return ("WT_NOTFOUND: database item not found");
+	case WT_READONLY:
+		return ("WT_READONLY: modification attempted of a read-only database");
+	case WT_RESTART:
+		return ("WT_RESTART: restart the operation (internal)");
+	case WT_TOOSMALL:
+		return ("WT_TOOSMALL: buffer too small");
+	default:
+		if (error > 0 && (p = strerror(error)) != NULL)
+			return (p);
+		break;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * !!!
+	 * Not thread-safe, but this is never supposed to happen.
+	 */
+	(void)snprintf(errbuf, sizeof(errbuf), "Unknown error: %d", error);
+	return (errbuf);
+}