strerror.c

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/* src/port/strerror.c */

/*
 * strerror - map error number to descriptive string
 *
 * This version is obviously somewhat Unix-specific.
 *
 * based on code by Henry Spencer
 * modified for ANSI by D'Arcy J.M. Cain
 */

#include "c.h"


extern const char *const sys_errlist[];
extern int  sys_nerr;

const char *
strerror(int errnum)
{
    static char buf[24];

    if (errnum < 0 || errnum > sys_nerr)
    {
        sprintf(buf, _("unrecognized error %d"), errnum);
        return buf;
    }

    return sys_errlist[errnum];
}