Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 10:58:35 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Schweikhardt@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE (Jens Schweikhardt)
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: bin/1492: perror ("") does not prepend ": "
Message-ID: <199608120858.KAA03972@diamant.noc.dfn.de>
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>Number: 1492
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: perror ("") does not prepend ": "
>Confidential: no
>Severity: critical
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Aug 12 02:00:01 PDT 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jens Schweikhardt
>Organization:
U o Stuttgart
>Release: FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386
>Environment:
Any
>Description:
perror () does not prepend ": " for the non-NULL argument "".
>How-To-Repeat:
% cat tst.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
int
main (void)
{
errno = EDOM;
perror (NULL);
perror ("");
perror ("progname");
return 0;
}
% cc tst.c
% ./a.out
Numerical argument out of domain
Numerical argument out of domain
progname: Numerical argument out of domain
The second line should be
: Numerical argument out of domain
>Fix:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: perror(3) not ANSI conformant
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