src-test2/lib/libc/string/strerror.3, branch release/8.1.0_cvs

Copy releng/8.1 to release/8.1.0 for 8.1-RELEASE.

2010-07-17T05:41:01Z

Approved by: re (implicit) This commit was manufactured to restore the state of the 8.1-RELEASE image.

Per Regents of the University of Calfornia letter, remove advertising

2007-01-09T00:28:16Z

clause. # If I've done so improperly on a file, please let me know.

Correctly document the return value of strerror() and strerror_r() and

2004-10-12T14:52:52Z

the contents of the returned buffer for unknown error codes. PR: docs/72578 Submitted by: Jilles Tjoelker MFC after: 3 days

Add back the Standards section claiming conformance to 1003.1-2001 and

2002-12-19T10:24:52Z

C99 now that all known standards-related bugs have been fixed.

Rearrange strerror() so that its itoa procedure can be used with

2002-12-18T16:53:31Z

strerror_r(). Doing this allows us to ensure that strerror_r() always fills the supplied buffer regardless of EINVAL or ERANGE errors. strerror()'s semantics have changed slightly such that an argument of 0 is now considered invalid and errno is set to EINVAL. Remove internal regression test for strerror() and strerror_r(). This will be reincarnated in src/tools/regression/lib/libc/string. In strerror(3), add a comment about strerror()'s bogus return type. PR: 44356

Remove the Standards section again until we get these functions sorted

2002-10-24T01:24:26Z

out. This will probably have to wait until after 5.0-R.

Add a Standards section, claiming conformance to IEEE Std. 1003.1-2001.

2002-10-23T10:16:21Z

Also add a note to the Bugs section pointing out that strerror() and perror() share the same static buffer.

Revert last commit. stdio.h include is for perror(), not strerror()

2002-01-31T13:32:14Z

strerror(3) is in string.h, not stdio.h

2002-01-31T13:20:48Z

MFC after: 1 week

mdoc(7) police: minor markup nits.

2001-12-12T15:02:32Z