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1 /* Extended support for using errno values.
2 Written by Fred Fish. fnf@cygnus.com
3 This file is in the public domain. --Per Bothner. */
5 #include "ansidecl.h"
6 #include "libiberty.h"
8 #include "config.h"
10 #ifndef HAVE_STRERROR
11 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_ERRLIST
12 /* Note that errno.h (not sure what OS) or stdio.h (BSD 4.4, at least)
13 might declare sys_errlist in a way that the compiler might consider
14 incompatible with our later declaration, perhaps by using const
15 attributes. So we hide the declaration in errno.h (if any) using a
16 macro. */
17 #define sys_nerr sys_nerr__
18 #define sys_errlist sys_errlist__
19 #endif
20 #endif
22 #include <stdio.h>
23 #include <errno.h>
25 #ifndef HAVE_STRERROR
26 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_ERRLIST
27 #undef sys_nerr
28 #undef sys_errlist
29 #endif
30 #endif
32 /* Routines imported from standard C runtime libraries. */
34 #ifdef HAVE_STDLIB_H
35 #include <stdlib.h>
36 #else
37 extern PTR malloc ();
38 #endif
40 #ifdef HAVE_STRING_H
41 #include <string.h>
42 #else
43 extern PTR memset ();
44 #endif
46 #ifndef MAX
47 # define MAX(a,b) ((a) > (b) ? (a) : (b))
48 #endif
50 static void init_error_tables PARAMS ((void));
52 /* Translation table for errno values. See intro(2) in most UNIX systems
53 Programmers Reference Manuals.
55 Note that this table is generally only accessed when it is used at runtime
56 to initialize errno name and message tables that are indexed by errno
57 value.
59 Not all of these errnos will exist on all systems. This table is the only
60 thing that should have to be updated as new error numbers are introduced.
61 It's sort of ugly, but at least its portable. */
63 struct error_info
65 const int value; /* The numeric value from <errno.h> */
66 const char *const name; /* The equivalent symbolic value */
67 #ifndef HAVE_SYS_ERRLIST
68 const char *const msg; /* Short message about this value */
69 #endif
72 #ifndef HAVE_SYS_ERRLIST
73 # define ENTRY(value, name, msg) {value, name, msg}
74 #else
75 # define ENTRY(value, name, msg) {value, name}
76 #endif
78 static const struct error_info error_table[] =
80 #if defined (EPERM)
81 ENTRY(EPERM, "EPERM", "Not owner"),
82 #endif
83 #if defined (ENOENT)
84 ENTRY(ENOENT, "ENOENT", "No such file or directory"),
85 #endif
86 #if defined (ESRCH)
87 ENTRY(ESRCH, "ESRCH", "No such process"),
88 #endif
89 #if defined (EINTR)
90 ENTRY(EINTR, "EINTR", "Interrupted system call"),
91 #endif
92 #if defined (EIO)
93 ENTRY(EIO, "EIO", "I/O error"),
94 #endif
95 #if defined (ENXIO)
96 ENTRY(ENXIO, "ENXIO", "No such device or address"),
97 #endif
98 #if defined (E2BIG)
99 ENTRY(E2BIG, "E2BIG", "Arg list too long"),
100 #endif
101 #if defined (ENOEXEC)
102 ENTRY(ENOEXEC, "ENOEXEC", "Exec format error"),
103 #endif
104 #if defined (EBADF)
105 ENTRY(EBADF, "EBADF", "Bad file number"),
106 #endif
107 #if defined (ECHILD)
108 ENTRY(ECHILD, "ECHILD", "No child processes"),
109 #endif
110 #if defined (EWOULDBLOCK) /* Put before EAGAIN, sometimes aliased */
111 ENTRY(EWOULDBLOCK, "EWOULDBLOCK", "Operation would block"),
112 #endif
113 #if defined (EAGAIN)
114 ENTRY(EAGAIN, "EAGAIN", "No more processes"),
115 #endif
116 #if defined (ENOMEM)
117 ENTRY(ENOMEM, "ENOMEM", "Not enough space"),
118 #endif
119 #if defined (EACCES)
120 ENTRY(EACCES, "EACCES", "Permission denied"),
121 #endif
122 #if defined (EFAULT)
123 ENTRY(EFAULT, "EFAULT", "Bad address"),
124 #endif
125 #if defined (ENOTBLK)
126 ENTRY(ENOTBLK, "ENOTBLK", "Block device required"),
127 #endif
128 #if defined (EBUSY)
129 ENTRY(EBUSY, "EBUSY", "Device busy"),
130 #endif
131 #if defined (EEXIST)
132 ENTRY(EEXIST, "EEXIST", "File exists"),
133 #endif
134 #if defined (EXDEV)
135 ENTRY(EXDEV, "EXDEV", "Cross-device link"),
136 #endif
137 #if defined (ENODEV)
138 ENTRY(ENODEV, "ENODEV", "No such device"),
139 #endif
140 #if defined (ENOTDIR)
141 ENTRY(ENOTDIR, "ENOTDIR", "Not a directory"),
142 #endif
143 #if defined (EISDIR)
144 ENTRY(EISDIR, "EISDIR", "Is a directory"),
145 #endif
146 #if defined (EINVAL)
147 ENTRY(EINVAL, "EINVAL", "Invalid argument"),
148 #endif
149 #if defined (ENFILE)
150 ENTRY(ENFILE, "ENFILE", "File table overflow"),
151 #endif
152 #if defined (EMFILE)
153 ENTRY(EMFILE, "EMFILE", "Too many open files"),
154 #endif
155 #if defined (ENOTTY)
156 ENTRY(ENOTTY, "ENOTTY", "Not a typewriter"),
157 #endif
158 #if defined (ETXTBSY)
159 ENTRY(ETXTBSY, "ETXTBSY", "Text file busy"),
160 #endif
161 #if defined (EFBIG)
162 ENTRY(EFBIG, "EFBIG", "File too large"),
163 #endif
164 #if defined (ENOSPC)
165 ENTRY(ENOSPC, "ENOSPC", "No space left on device"),
166 #endif
167 #if defined (ESPIPE)
168 ENTRY(ESPIPE, "ESPIPE", "Illegal seek"),
169 #endif
170 #if defined (EROFS)
171 ENTRY(EROFS, "EROFS", "Read-only file system"),
172 #endif
173 #if defined (EMLINK)
174 ENTRY(EMLINK, "EMLINK", "Too many links"),
175 #endif
176 #if defined (EPIPE)
177 ENTRY(EPIPE, "EPIPE", "Broken pipe"),
178 #endif
179 #if defined (EDOM)
180 ENTRY(EDOM, "EDOM", "Math argument out of domain of func"),
181 #endif
182 #if defined (ERANGE)
183 ENTRY(ERANGE, "ERANGE", "Math result not representable"),
184 #endif
185 #if defined (ENOMSG)
186 ENTRY(ENOMSG, "ENOMSG", "No message of desired type"),
187 #endif
188 #if defined (EIDRM)
189 ENTRY(EIDRM, "EIDRM", "Identifier removed"),
190 #endif
191 #if defined (ECHRNG)
192 ENTRY(ECHRNG, "ECHRNG", "Channel number out of range"),
193 #endif
194 #if defined (EL2NSYNC)
195 ENTRY(EL2NSYNC, "EL2NSYNC", "Level 2 not synchronized"),
196 #endif
197 #if defined (EL3HLT)
198 ENTRY(EL3HLT, "EL3HLT", "Level 3 halted"),
199 #endif
200 #if defined (EL3RST)
201 ENTRY(EL3RST, "EL3RST", "Level 3 reset"),
202 #endif
203 #if defined (ELNRNG)
204 ENTRY(ELNRNG, "ELNRNG", "Link number out of range"),
205 #endif
206 #if defined (EUNATCH)
207 ENTRY(EUNATCH, "EUNATCH", "Protocol driver not attached"),
208 #endif
209 #if defined (ENOCSI)
210 ENTRY(ENOCSI, "ENOCSI", "No CSI structure available"),
211 #endif
212 #if defined (EL2HLT)
213 ENTRY(EL2HLT, "EL2HLT", "Level 2 halted"),
214 #endif
215 #if defined (EDEADLK)
216 ENTRY(EDEADLK, "EDEADLK", "Deadlock condition"),
217 #endif
218 #if defined (ENOLCK)
219 ENTRY(ENOLCK, "ENOLCK", "No record locks available"),
220 #endif
221 #if defined (EBADE)
222 ENTRY(EBADE, "EBADE", "Invalid exchange"),
223 #endif
224 #if defined (EBADR)
225 ENTRY(EBADR, "EBADR", "Invalid request descriptor"),
226 #endif
227 #if defined (EXFULL)
228 ENTRY(EXFULL, "EXFULL", "Exchange full"),
229 #endif
230 #if defined (ENOANO)
231 ENTRY(ENOANO, "ENOANO", "No anode"),
232 #endif
233 #if defined (EBADRQC)
234 ENTRY(EBADRQC, "EBADRQC", "Invalid request code"),
235 #endif
236 #if defined (EBADSLT)
237 ENTRY(EBADSLT, "EBADSLT", "Invalid slot"),
238 #endif
239 #if defined (EDEADLOCK)
240 ENTRY(EDEADLOCK, "EDEADLOCK", "File locking deadlock error"),
241 #endif
242 #if defined (EBFONT)
243 ENTRY(EBFONT, "EBFONT", "Bad font file format"),
244 #endif
245 #if defined (ENOSTR)
246 ENTRY(ENOSTR, "ENOSTR", "Device not a stream"),
247 #endif
248 #if defined (ENODATA)
249 ENTRY(ENODATA, "ENODATA", "No data available"),
250 #endif
251 #if defined (ETIME)
252 ENTRY(ETIME, "ETIME", "Timer expired"),
253 #endif
254 #if defined (ENOSR)
255 ENTRY(ENOSR, "ENOSR", "Out of streams resources"),
256 #endif
257 #if defined (ENONET)
258 ENTRY(ENONET, "ENONET", "Machine is not on the network"),
259 #endif
260 #if defined (ENOPKG)
261 ENTRY(ENOPKG, "ENOPKG", "Package not installed"),
262 #endif
263 #if defined (EREMOTE)
264 ENTRY(EREMOTE, "EREMOTE", "Object is remote"),
265 #endif
266 #if defined (ENOLINK)
267 ENTRY(ENOLINK, "ENOLINK", "Link has been severed"),
268 #endif
269 #if defined (EADV)
270 ENTRY(EADV, "EADV", "Advertise error"),
271 #endif
272 #if defined (ESRMNT)
273 ENTRY(ESRMNT, "ESRMNT", "Srmount error"),
274 #endif
275 #if defined (ECOMM)
276 ENTRY(ECOMM, "ECOMM", "Communication error on send"),
277 #endif
278 #if defined (EPROTO)
279 ENTRY(EPROTO, "EPROTO", "Protocol error"),
280 #endif
281 #if defined (EMULTIHOP)
282 ENTRY(EMULTIHOP, "EMULTIHOP", "Multihop attempted"),
283 #endif
284 #if defined (EDOTDOT)
285 ENTRY(EDOTDOT, "EDOTDOT", "RFS specific error"),
286 #endif
287 #if defined (EBADMSG)
288 ENTRY(EBADMSG, "EBADMSG", "Not a data message"),
289 #endif
290 #if defined (ENAMETOOLONG)
291 ENTRY(ENAMETOOLONG, "ENAMETOOLONG", "File name too long"),
292 #endif
293 #if defined (EOVERFLOW)
294 ENTRY(EOVERFLOW, "EOVERFLOW", "Value too large for defined data type"),
295 #endif
296 #if defined (ENOTUNIQ)
297 ENTRY(ENOTUNIQ, "ENOTUNIQ", "Name not unique on network"),
298 #endif
299 #if defined (EBADFD)
300 ENTRY(EBADFD, "EBADFD", "File descriptor in bad state"),
301 #endif
302 #if defined (EREMCHG)
303 ENTRY(EREMCHG, "EREMCHG", "Remote address changed"),
304 #endif
305 #if defined (ELIBACC)
306 ENTRY(ELIBACC, "ELIBACC", "Can not access a needed shared library"),
307 #endif
308 #if defined (ELIBBAD)
309 ENTRY(ELIBBAD, "ELIBBAD", "Accessing a corrupted shared library"),
310 #endif
311 #if defined (ELIBSCN)
312 ENTRY(ELIBSCN, "ELIBSCN", ".lib section in a.out corrupted"),
313 #endif
314 #if defined (ELIBMAX)
315 ENTRY(ELIBMAX, "ELIBMAX", "Attempting to link in too many shared libraries"),
316 #endif
317 #if defined (ELIBEXEC)
318 ENTRY(ELIBEXEC, "ELIBEXEC", "Cannot exec a shared library directly"),
319 #endif
320 #if defined (EILSEQ)
321 ENTRY(EILSEQ, "EILSEQ", "Illegal byte sequence"),
322 #endif
323 #if defined (ENOSYS)
324 ENTRY(ENOSYS, "ENOSYS", "Operation not applicable"),
325 #endif
326 #if defined (ELOOP)
327 ENTRY(ELOOP, "ELOOP", "Too many symbolic links encountered"),
328 #endif
329 #if defined (ERESTART)
330 ENTRY(ERESTART, "ERESTART", "Interrupted system call should be restarted"),
331 #endif
332 #if defined (ESTRPIPE)
333 ENTRY(ESTRPIPE, "ESTRPIPE", "Streams pipe error"),
334 #endif
335 #if defined (ENOTEMPTY)
336 ENTRY(ENOTEMPTY, "ENOTEMPTY", "Directory not empty"),
337 #endif
338 #if defined (EUSERS)
339 ENTRY(EUSERS, "EUSERS", "Too many users"),
340 #endif
341 #if defined (ENOTSOCK)
342 ENTRY(ENOTSOCK, "ENOTSOCK", "Socket operation on non-socket"),
343 #endif
344 #if defined (EDESTADDRREQ)
345 ENTRY(EDESTADDRREQ, "EDESTADDRREQ", "Destination address required"),
346 #endif
347 #if defined (EMSGSIZE)
348 ENTRY(EMSGSIZE, "EMSGSIZE", "Message too long"),
349 #endif
350 #if defined (EPROTOTYPE)
351 ENTRY(EPROTOTYPE, "EPROTOTYPE", "Protocol wrong type for socket"),
352 #endif
353 #if defined (ENOPROTOOPT)
354 ENTRY(ENOPROTOOPT, "ENOPROTOOPT", "Protocol not available"),
355 #endif
356 #if defined (EPROTONOSUPPORT)
357 ENTRY(EPROTONOSUPPORT, "EPROTONOSUPPORT", "Protocol not supported"),
358 #endif
359 #if defined (ESOCKTNOSUPPORT)
360 ENTRY(ESOCKTNOSUPPORT, "ESOCKTNOSUPPORT", "Socket type not supported"),
361 #endif
362 #if defined (EOPNOTSUPP)
363 ENTRY(EOPNOTSUPP, "EOPNOTSUPP", "Operation not supported on transport endpoint"),
364 #endif
365 #if defined (EPFNOSUPPORT)
366 ENTRY(EPFNOSUPPORT, "EPFNOSUPPORT", "Protocol family not supported"),
367 #endif
368 #if defined (EAFNOSUPPORT)
369 ENTRY(EAFNOSUPPORT, "EAFNOSUPPORT", "Address family not supported by protocol"),
370 #endif
371 #if defined (EADDRINUSE)
372 ENTRY(EADDRINUSE, "EADDRINUSE", "Address already in use"),
373 #endif
374 #if defined (EADDRNOTAVAIL)
375 ENTRY(EADDRNOTAVAIL, "EADDRNOTAVAIL","Cannot assign requested address"),
376 #endif
377 #if defined (ENETDOWN)
378 ENTRY(ENETDOWN, "ENETDOWN", "Network is down"),
379 #endif
380 #if defined (ENETUNREACH)
381 ENTRY(ENETUNREACH, "ENETUNREACH", "Network is unreachable"),
382 #endif
383 #if defined (ENETRESET)
384 ENTRY(ENETRESET, "ENETRESET", "Network dropped connection because of reset"),
385 #endif
386 #if defined (ECONNABORTED)
387 ENTRY(ECONNABORTED, "ECONNABORTED", "Software caused connection abort"),
388 #endif
389 #if defined (ECONNRESET)
390 ENTRY(ECONNRESET, "ECONNRESET", "Connection reset by peer"),
391 #endif
392 #if defined (ENOBUFS)
393 ENTRY(ENOBUFS, "ENOBUFS", "No buffer space available"),
394 #endif
395 #if defined (EISCONN)
396 ENTRY(EISCONN, "EISCONN", "Transport endpoint is already connected"),
397 #endif
398 #if defined (ENOTCONN)
399 ENTRY(ENOTCONN, "ENOTCONN", "Transport endpoint is not connected"),
400 #endif
401 #if defined (ESHUTDOWN)
402 ENTRY(ESHUTDOWN, "ESHUTDOWN", "Cannot send after transport endpoint shutdown"),
403 #endif
404 #if defined (ETOOMANYREFS)
405 ENTRY(ETOOMANYREFS, "ETOOMANYREFS", "Too many references: cannot splice"),
406 #endif
407 #if defined (ETIMEDOUT)
408 ENTRY(ETIMEDOUT, "ETIMEDOUT", "Connection timed out"),
409 #endif
410 #if defined (ECONNREFUSED)
411 ENTRY(ECONNREFUSED, "ECONNREFUSED", "Connection refused"),
412 #endif
413 #if defined (EHOSTDOWN)
414 ENTRY(EHOSTDOWN, "EHOSTDOWN", "Host is down"),
415 #endif
416 #if defined (EHOSTUNREACH)
417 ENTRY(EHOSTUNREACH, "EHOSTUNREACH", "No route to host"),
418 #endif
419 #if defined (EALREADY)
420 ENTRY(EALREADY, "EALREADY", "Operation already in progress"),
421 #endif
422 #if defined (EINPROGRESS)
423 ENTRY(EINPROGRESS, "EINPROGRESS", "Operation now in progress"),
424 #endif
425 #if defined (ESTALE)
426 ENTRY(ESTALE, "ESTALE", "Stale NFS file handle"),
427 #endif
428 #if defined (EUCLEAN)
429 ENTRY(EUCLEAN, "EUCLEAN", "Structure needs cleaning"),
430 #endif
431 #if defined (ENOTNAM)
432 ENTRY(ENOTNAM, "ENOTNAM", "Not a XENIX named type file"),
433 #endif
434 #if defined (ENAVAIL)
435 ENTRY(ENAVAIL, "ENAVAIL", "No XENIX semaphores available"),
436 #endif
437 #if defined (EISNAM)
438 ENTRY(EISNAM, "EISNAM", "Is a named type file"),
439 #endif
440 #if defined (EREMOTEIO)
441 ENTRY(EREMOTEIO, "EREMOTEIO", "Remote I/O error"),
442 #endif
443 ENTRY(0, NULL, NULL)
446 #ifdef EVMSERR
447 /* This is not in the table, because the numeric value of EVMSERR (32767)
448 lies outside the range of sys_errlist[]. */
449 static struct { int value; const char *name, *msg; }
450 evmserr = { EVMSERR, "EVMSERR", "VMS-specific error" };
451 #endif
453 /* Translation table allocated and initialized at runtime. Indexed by the
454 errno value to find the equivalent symbolic value. */
456 static const char **error_names;
457 static int num_error_names = 0;
459 /* Translation table allocated and initialized at runtime, if it does not
460 already exist in the host environment. Indexed by the errno value to find
461 the descriptive string.
463 We don't export it for use in other modules because even though it has the
464 same name, it differs from other implementations in that it is dynamically
465 initialized rather than statically initialized. */
467 #ifndef HAVE_STRERROR
468 #ifndef HAVE_SYS_ERRLIST
470 static int sys_nerr;
471 static const char **sys_errlist;
473 #else
475 extern int sys_nerr;
476 extern char *sys_errlist[];
478 #endif
479 #endif
483 NAME
485 init_error_tables -- initialize the name and message tables
487 SYNOPSIS
489 static void init_error_tables ();
491 DESCRIPTION
493 Using the error_table, which is initialized at compile time, generate
494 the error_names and the sys_errlist (if needed) tables, which are
495 indexed at runtime by a specific errno value.
497 BUGS
499 The initialization of the tables may fail under low memory conditions,
500 in which case we don't do anything particularly useful, but we don't
501 bomb either. Who knows, it might succeed at a later point if we free
502 some memory in the meantime. In any case, the other routines know
503 how to deal with lack of a table after trying to initialize it. This
504 may or may not be considered to be a bug, that we don't specifically
505 warn about this particular failure mode.
509 static void
510 init_error_tables ()
512 const struct error_info *eip;
513 int nbytes;
515 /* If we haven't already scanned the error_table once to find the maximum
516 errno value, then go find it now. */
518 if (num_error_names == 0)
520 for (eip = error_table; eip -> name != NULL; eip++)
522 if (eip -> value >= num_error_names)
524 num_error_names = eip -> value + 1;
529 /* Now attempt to allocate the error_names table, zero it out, and then
530 initialize it from the statically initialized error_table. */
532 if (error_names == NULL)
534 nbytes = num_error_names * sizeof (char *);
535 if ((error_names = (const char **) malloc (nbytes)) != NULL)
537 memset (error_names, 0, nbytes);
538 for (eip = error_table; eip -> name != NULL; eip++)
540 error_names[eip -> value] = eip -> name;
545 #ifndef HAVE_STRERROR
546 #ifndef HAVE_SYS_ERRLIST
548 /* Now attempt to allocate the sys_errlist table, zero it out, and then
549 initialize it from the statically initialized error_table. */
551 if (sys_errlist == NULL)
553 nbytes = num_error_names * sizeof (char *);
554 if ((sys_errlist = (const char **) malloc (nbytes)) != NULL)
556 memset (sys_errlist, 0, nbytes);
557 sys_nerr = num_error_names;
558 for (eip = error_table; eip -> name != NULL; eip++)
560 sys_errlist[eip -> value] = eip -> msg;
565 #endif
566 #endif
573 @deftypefn Extension int errno_max (void)
575 Returns the maximum @code{errno} value for which a corresponding
576 symbolic name or message is available. Note that in the case where we
577 use the @code{sys_errlist} supplied by the system, it is possible for
578 there to be more symbolic names than messages, or vice versa. In
579 fact, the manual page for @code{perror(3C)} explicitly warns that one
580 should check the size of the table (@code{sys_nerr}) before indexing
581 it, since new error codes may be added to the system before they are
582 added to the table. Thus @code{sys_nerr} might be smaller than value
583 implied by the largest @code{errno} value defined in @code{<errno.h>}.
585 We return the maximum value that can be used to obtain a meaningful
586 symbolic name or message.
588 @end deftypefn
593 errno_max ()
595 int maxsize;
597 if (error_names == NULL)
599 init_error_tables ();
601 maxsize = MAX (sys_nerr, num_error_names);
602 return (maxsize - 1);
605 #ifndef HAVE_STRERROR
609 @deftypefn Supplemental char* strerror (int @var{errnoval})
611 Maps an @code{errno} number to an error message string, the contents
612 of which are implementation defined. On systems which have the
613 external variables @code{sys_nerr} and @code{sys_errlist}, these
614 strings will be the same as the ones used by @code{perror}.
616 If the supplied error number is within the valid range of indices for
617 the @code{sys_errlist}, but no message is available for the particular
618 error number, then returns the string @samp{Error @var{num}}, where
619 @var{num} is the error number.
621 If the supplied error number is not a valid index into
622 @code{sys_errlist}, returns @code{NULL}.
624 The returned string is only guaranteed to be valid only until the
625 next call to @code{strerror}.
627 @end deftypefn
631 char *
632 strerror (errnoval)
633 int errnoval;
635 const char *msg;
636 static char buf[32];
638 #ifndef HAVE_SYS_ERRLIST
640 if (error_names == NULL)
642 init_error_tables ();
645 #endif
647 if ((errnoval < 0) || (errnoval >= sys_nerr))
649 #ifdef EVMSERR
650 if (errnoval == evmserr.value)
651 msg = evmserr.msg;
652 else
653 #endif
654 /* Out of range, just return NULL */
655 msg = NULL;
657 else if ((sys_errlist == NULL) || (sys_errlist[errnoval] == NULL))
659 /* In range, but no sys_errlist or no entry at this index. */
660 sprintf (buf, "Error %d", errnoval);
661 msg = buf;
663 else
665 /* In range, and a valid message. Just return the message. */
666 msg = (char *) sys_errlist[errnoval];
669 return (msg);
672 #endif /* ! HAVE_STRERROR */
677 @deftypefn Replacement {const char*} strerrno (int @var{errnum})
679 Given an error number returned from a system call (typically returned
680 in @code{errno}), returns a pointer to a string containing the
681 symbolic name of that error number, as found in @code{<errno.h>}.
683 If the supplied error number is within the valid range of indices for
684 symbolic names, but no name is available for the particular error
685 number, then returns the string @samp{Error @var{num}}, where @var{num}
686 is the error number.
688 If the supplied error number is not within the range of valid
689 indices, then returns @code{NULL}.
691 The contents of the location pointed to are only guaranteed to be
692 valid until the next call to @code{strerrno}.
694 @end deftypefn
698 const char *
699 strerrno (errnoval)
700 int errnoval;
702 const char *name;
703 static char buf[32];
705 if (error_names == NULL)
707 init_error_tables ();
710 if ((errnoval < 0) || (errnoval >= num_error_names))
712 #ifdef EVMSERR
713 if (errnoval == evmserr.value)
714 name = evmserr.name;
715 else
716 #endif
717 /* Out of range, just return NULL */
718 name = NULL;
720 else if ((error_names == NULL) || (error_names[errnoval] == NULL))
722 /* In range, but no error_names or no entry at this index. */
723 sprintf (buf, "Error %d", errnoval);
724 name = (const char *) buf;
726 else
728 /* In range, and a valid name. Just return the name. */
729 name = error_names[errnoval];
732 return (name);
737 @deftypefn Extension int strtoerrno (const char *@var{name})
739 Given the symbolic name of a error number (e.g., @code{EACCES}), map it
740 to an errno value. If no translation is found, returns 0.
742 @end deftypefn
747 strtoerrno (name)
748 const char *name;
750 int errnoval = 0;
752 if (name != NULL)
754 if (error_names == NULL)
756 init_error_tables ();
758 for (errnoval = 0; errnoval < num_error_names; errnoval++)
760 if ((error_names[errnoval] != NULL) &&
761 (strcmp (name, error_names[errnoval]) == 0))
763 break;
766 if (errnoval == num_error_names)
768 #ifdef EVMSERR
769 if (strcmp (name, evmserr.name) == 0)
770 errnoval = evmserr.value;
771 else
772 #endif
773 errnoval = 0;
776 return (errnoval);
780 /* A simple little main that does nothing but print all the errno translations
781 if MAIN is defined and this file is compiled and linked. */
783 #ifdef MAIN
785 #include <stdio.h>
788 main ()
790 int errn;
791 int errnmax;
792 const char *name;
793 const char *msg;
794 char *strerror ();
796 errnmax = errno_max ();
797 printf ("%d entries in names table.\n", num_error_names);
798 printf ("%d entries in messages table.\n", sys_nerr);
799 printf ("%d is max useful index.\n", errnmax);
801 /* Keep printing values until we get to the end of *both* tables, not
802 *either* table. Note that knowing the maximum useful index does *not*
803 relieve us of the responsibility of testing the return pointer for
804 NULL. */
806 for (errn = 0; errn <= errnmax; errn++)
808 name = strerrno (errn);
809 name = (name == NULL) ? "<NULL>" : name;
810 msg = strerror (errn);
811 msg = (msg == NULL) ? "<NULL>" : msg;
812 printf ("%-4d%-18s%s\n", errn, name, msg);
815 return 0;
818 #endif