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NAME
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errstr, rerrstr, werrstr – description of last system call error
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SYNOPSIS
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#include <u.h>
#include <libc.h>
int errstr(char *err, uint nerr)
void rerrstr(char *err, uint nerr)
void werrstr(char *fmt, ...)
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DESCRIPTION
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When a system call fails it returns –1 and records a null terminated
string describing the error in a per-process buffer. Errstr swaps
the contents of that buffer with the contents of the array err.
Errstr will write at most nerr bytes into err; if the per-process
error string does not fit, it is silently truncated at a UTF character
boundary. The returned string is
NUL-terminated. Usually errstr will be called with an empty string,
but the exchange property provides a mechanism for libraries to
set the return value for the next call to errstr.
The per-process buffer is ERRMAX bytes long. Any error string
provided by the user will be truncated at ERRMAX−1 bytes. ERRMAX
is defined in <libc.h>.
If no system call has generated an error since the last call to
errstr with an empty string, the result is an empty string.
The verb r in print(3) calls errstr and outputs the error string.
Rerrstr reads the error string but does not modify the per-process
buffer, so a subsequent errstr will recover the same string.
Werrstr takes a print style format as its argument and uses it
to format a string to pass to errstr. The string returned from
errstr is discarded.
The error string is maintained in parallel with the Unix error
number errno. Changing errno will reset the error string, and
changing the error string via errstr or werrstr will reset errno.
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SOURCE
DIAGNOSTICS
SEE ALSO
BUGS
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The implementation sets errno to the (somewhat arbitrary) constant
0x19283745 when the error string is valid. When errno is set to
other values, the error string is synthesized using strerror(3).
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