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diff --git a/src/util/syserror.cpp b/src/util/syserror.cpp
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+// Copyright (c) 2020-2022 The Bitcoin Core developers
+// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
+#if defined(HAVE_CONFIG_H)
+#include <config/bitcoin-config.h>
+#endif
+
+#include <tinyformat.h>
+#include <util/syserror.h>
+
+#include <cstring>
+
+std::string SysErrorString(int err)
+{
+    char buf[256];
+    buf[0] = 0;
+    /* Too bad there are two incompatible implementations of the
+     * thread-safe strerror. */
+    const char *s;
+#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;
+#endif
+    return strprintf("%s (%d)", s, err);
+}