Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 16:28:55 GMT From: Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu@apple.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: standards/151316: lib/libc/string/strerror.c r1.9 breaks POSIX Message-ID: <201010081628.o98GStim089802@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201010081630.o98GU6oB042682@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 151316
>Category: standards
>Synopsis: lib/libc/string/strerror.c r1.9 breaks POSIX
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-standards
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Oct 08 16:30:06 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jeremy Huddleston
>Release: trunk
>Organization:
Apple Inc
>Environment:
NA
>Description:
r1.9 of strerror.c did the following (from the changeslog)
strerror()'s semantics have changed slightly such that an argument of
0 is now considered invalid and errno is set to EINVAL.
This introduces a regression in SUS conformance.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
In strerror.c's strerror_r
- if (errnum < 1 || errnum >= sys_nerr) {
+ if (errnum < 0 || errnum >= sys_nerr) {
And here's a man page change:
@@ -110,7 +118,7 @@
.Er EINVAL
as a warning.
Error numbers recognized by this implementation fall in
-the range 0 <
+the range 0 <=
.Fa errnum
<
.Fa sys_nerr .
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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