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-rw-r--r--src/util/syserror.cpp17
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/src/util/syserror.cpp b/src/util/syserror.cpp
index 20f89057fc..d721602bbb 100644
--- a/src/util/syserror.cpp
+++ b/src/util/syserror.cpp
@@ -14,22 +14,21 @@
std::string SysErrorString(int err)
{
char buf[256];
- buf[0] = 0;
/* Too bad there are three incompatible implementations of the
* thread-safe strerror. */
- const char *s;
+ const char *s = nullptr;
#ifdef WIN32
- s = buf;
- if (strerror_s(buf, sizeof(buf), err) != 0)
- buf[0] = 0;
+ if (strerror_s(buf, sizeof(buf), err) == 0) s = buf;
#else
#ifdef STRERROR_R_CHAR_P /* GNU variant can return a pointer outside the passed buffer */
s = strerror_r(err, buf, sizeof(buf));
#else /* POSIX variant always returns message in buffer */
- s = buf;
- if (strerror_r(err, buf, sizeof(buf)))
- buf[0] = 0;
+ if (strerror_r(err, buf, sizeof(buf)) == 0) s = buf;
#endif
#endif
- return strprintf("%s (%d)", s, err);
+ if (s != nullptr) {
+ return strprintf("%s (%d)", s, err);
+ } else {
+ return strprintf("Unknown error (%d)", err);
+ }
}