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1 /* Copyright (C) 1991-1993,1997,1998,2000-2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
3 
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5    modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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8 
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18 */
19 
20 
21 #include <errno.h>
22 #include <stdio.h>
23 #include <string.h>
24 
25 
26 /**	Print a line on stderr consisting of the text in \a s, a colon,
27  *	a space, a message describing the meaning of the contents of
28  *	`errno' and a newline.
29  *	If \a s is NULL or "", the colon and space are omitted.
30  */
31 
32 void
33 perror(const char *s)
34 {
35 	const char *colon;
36 	char buffer[1024];
37 
38 	// ToDo: we should not change the orientation of the stream
39 	// (wide char support is currently disabled, so this doesn't matter yet)
40 
41 	if (s == NULL || *s == '\0')
42 		s = colon = "";
43 	else
44 		colon = ": ";
45 
46 	if (strerror_r(errno, buffer, sizeof(buffer)) != 0)
47 		sprintf("Unknown error %ld", errno);
48 
49 	fprintf(stderr, "%s%s%s\n", s, colon, buffer);
50 }
51 
52