2006-03-05 Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
[glibc/history.git] / stdio-common / perror.c
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1 /* Copyright (C) 1991-1993,1997,1998,2000-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
4 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
5 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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16 Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
17 02111-1307 USA. */
19 #include <errno.h>
20 #include <stdio.h>
21 #include <string.h>
22 #include <unistd.h>
23 #include <wchar.h>
24 #include "libioP.h"
26 static void
27 perror_internal (FILE *fp, const char *s, int errnum)
29 char buf[1024];
30 const char *colon;
31 const char *errstring;
33 if (s == NULL || *s == '\0')
34 s = colon = "";
35 else
36 colon = ": ";
38 errstring = __strerror_r (errnum, buf, sizeof buf);
40 (void) __fxprintf (fp, "%s%s%s\n", s, colon, errstring);
44 /* Print a line on stderr consisting of the text in S, a colon, a space,
45 a message describing the meaning of the contents of `errno' and a newline.
46 If S is NULL or "", the colon and space are omitted. */
47 void
48 perror (const char *s)
50 int errnum = errno;
51 FILE *fp;
52 int fd = -1;
55 /* The standard says that 'perror' must not change the orientation
56 of the stream. What is supposed to happen when the stream isn't
57 oriented yet? In this case we'll create a new stream which is
58 using the same underlying file descriptor. */
59 if (__builtin_expect (_IO_fwide (stderr, 0) != 0, 1)
60 || (fd = fileno (stderr)) == -1
61 || (fd = __dup (fd)) == -1
62 || (fp = fdopen (fd, "w+")) == NULL)
64 if (__builtin_expect (fd != -1, 0))
65 __close (fd);
67 /* Use standard error as is. */
68 perror_internal (stderr, s, errnum);
70 else
72 /* We don't have to do any special hacks regarding the file
73 position. Since the stderr stream wasn't used so far we just
74 write to the descriptor. */
75 perror_internal (fp, s, errnum);
76 /* Close the stream. */
77 fclose (fp);
80 libc_hidden_def (perror)