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1 // Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. | |
2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be | |
3 // found in the LICENSE file. | |
4 | |
5 #ifndef BASE_SAFE_STRERROR_POSIX_H_ | |
6 #define BASE_SAFE_STRERROR_POSIX_H_ | |
7 | |
8 #include <string> | |
9 | |
10 #include "base/base_export.h" | |
11 | |
12 // BEFORE using anything from this file, first look at PLOG and friends in | |
13 // logging.h and use them instead if applicable. | |
14 // | |
15 // This file declares safe, portable alternatives to the POSIX strerror() | |
16 // function. strerror() is inherently unsafe in multi-threaded apps and should | |
17 // never be used. Doing so can cause crashes. Additionally, the thread-safe | |
18 // alternative strerror_r varies in semantics across platforms. Use these | |
19 // functions instead. | |
20 | |
21 // Thread-safe strerror function with dependable semantics that never fails. | |
22 // It will write the string form of error "err" to buffer buf of length len. | |
23 // If there is an error calling the OS's strerror_r() function then a message to | |
24 // that effect will be printed into buf, truncating if necessary. The final | |
25 // result is always null-terminated. The value of errno is never changed. | |
26 // | |
27 // Use this instead of strerror_r(). | |
28 BASE_EXPORT void safe_strerror_r(int err, char *buf, size_t len); | |
29 | |
30 // Calls safe_strerror_r with a buffer of suitable size and returns the result | |
31 // in a C++ string. | |
32 // | |
33 // Use this instead of strerror(). Note though that safe_strerror_r will be | |
34 // more robust in the case of heap corruption errors, since it doesn't need to | |
35 // allocate a string. | |
36 BASE_EXPORT std::string safe_strerror(int err); | |
37 | |
38 #endif // BASE_SAFE_STRERROR_POSIX_H_ | |
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