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Re: strerror(), errno and syslog()


On Aug 25 23:34, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This crashes (yes it's odd code, but it shouldn't crash):
> 
> #include <syslog.h>
> #include <errno.h>
> 
> int main(void) {
> 	errno = -1;
> 	syslog(LOG_ERR,"foo");
> }
> 
> Indeed, one of the first things that vsyslog does is
> 
> 	char *errtext = strerror (get_errno ());
> 	int errlen = strlen (errtext);
> 
> And it happens that the current implementation of strerror() returns
> NULL on invalid errno. This is not posix compliant: posix says that

This has been fixed a week ago.


Corinna

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