1 /* Print a message describing error code.
2 Copyright (C) 2008-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Written by Bruno Haible and Simon Josefsson.
5 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
8 (at your option) any later version.
10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
13 GNU General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
30 /* Use the system functions, not the gnulib overrides in this file. */
33 /* my_strerror (errnum) is equivalent to strerror (errnum).
34 But it uses its own buffer, not the one from strerror(). */
37 #define strerror my_strerror
38 #include "strerror-impl.h"
41 perror (const char *string)
43 const char *errno_description = my_strerror (errno);
45 if (string != NULL && *string != '\0')
46 fprintf (stderr, "%s: %s\n", string, errno_description);
48 fprintf (stderr, "%s\n", errno_description);