Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:54:46 -0800 From: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> To: wes@softweyr.com Cc: mike@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-standards@bostonradio.org Subject: Re: strerror_r() implementation Message-ID: <200111300454.UAA06333@windsor.research.att.com> References: <20011125014216.A84711@espresso.q9media.com> <3C00A43B.9929E9C7@softweyr.com> <200111281854.KAA13574@windsor.research.att.com> <3C05BE3A.1DF1A539@softweyr.com>
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>Ah, I see the confusion. The size of ebuf in strerror doesn't need to >be big enough to hold messages from sys_errlist, it only needs to be >large enough to hold "Unknown error: " plus the length of a 64-bit >number in ascii. Right. 40 was enough for this in rev 1.4; I dunno why it has to be 55 now. I don't feel particularly strongly about the details of this, though. Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message
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