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-rw-r--r--string/Makefile3
-rw-r--r--string/Versions4
-rw-r--r--string/string.h25
3 files changed, 29 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/string/Makefile b/string/Makefile
index ad5ff79..5ab487f 100644
--- a/string/Makefile
+++ b/string/Makefile
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ routines := strcat strchr strcmp strcoll strcpy strcspn \
delete extract insert stringify \
addsep replace) \
envz basename \
- strcoll_l strxfrm_l string-inlines memrchr
+ strcoll_l strxfrm_l string-inlines memrchr \
+ xpg-strerror
# Gcc internally generates calls to unbounded memcpy and memset
# for -fbounded-pointer compiles. Glibc uses memchr for explicit checks.
diff --git a/string/Versions b/string/Versions
index 2708091..ee5dee9 100644
--- a/string/Versions
+++ b/string/Versions
@@ -73,4 +73,8 @@ libc {
# m*
memrchr;
}
+ GLIBC_2.3.4 {
+ # x*
+ __xpg_strerror_r;
+ }
}
diff --git a/string/string.h b/string/string.h
index 108d54d..19dd9c3 100644
--- a/string/string.h
+++ b/string/string.h
@@ -243,9 +243,30 @@ __BEGIN_NAMESPACE_STD
extern char *strerror (int __errnum) __THROW;
__END_NAMESPACE_STD
#if defined __USE_XOPEN2K || defined __USE_MISC
-/* Reentrant version of `strerror'. If a temporary buffer is required, at
- most BUFLEN bytes of BUF will be used. */
+/* Reentrant version of `strerror'.
+ There are 2 flavors of `strerror_r', GNU which returns the string
+ and may or may not use the supplied temporary buffer and POSIX one
+ which fills the string into the buffer.
+ To use the POSIX version, -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 or -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112L
+ without -D_GNU_SOURCE is needed, otherwise the GNU version is
+ preferred. */
+# if defined __USE_XOPEN2K && !defined __USE_GNU
+/* Fill BUF with a string describing the meaning of the `errno' code in
+ ERRNUM. */
+# ifdef __REDIRECT
+extern int __REDIRECT (strerror_r,
+ (int __errnum, char *__buf, size_t __buflen),
+ __xpg_strerror_r) __THROW;
+# else
+extern int __xpg_strerror_r (int __errnum, char *__buf, size_t __buflen)
+ __THROW;
+# define strerror_r __xpg_strerror_r
+# endif
+# else
+/* If a temporary buffer is required, at most BUFLEN bytes of BUF will be
+ used. */
extern char *strerror_r (int __errnum, char *__buf, size_t __buflen) __THROW;
+# endif
#endif
/* We define this function always since `bzero' is sometimes needed when