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Issue 1647803004: Move base to DEPS (Closed) Base URL: git@github.com:domokit/mojo.git@master
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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_POSIX_SAFE_STRERROR_H_
6 #define BASE_POSIX_SAFE_STRERROR_H_
7
8 #include <string>
9
10 #include "base/base_export.h"
11
12 namespace base {
13
14 // BEFORE using anything from this file, first look at PLOG and friends in
15 // logging.h and use them instead if applicable.
16 //
17 // This file declares safe, portable alternatives to the POSIX strerror()
18 // function. strerror() is inherently unsafe in multi-threaded apps and should
19 // never be used. Doing so can cause crashes. Additionally, the thread-safe
20 // alternative strerror_r varies in semantics across platforms. Use these
21 // functions instead.
22
23 // Thread-safe strerror function with dependable semantics that never fails.
24 // It will write the string form of error "err" to buffer buf of length len.
25 // If there is an error calling the OS's strerror_r() function then a message to
26 // that effect will be printed into buf, truncating if necessary. The final
27 // result is always null-terminated. The value of errno is never changed.
28 //
29 // Use this instead of strerror_r().
30 BASE_EXPORT void safe_strerror_r(int err, char *buf, size_t len);
31
32 // Calls safe_strerror_r with a buffer of suitable size and returns the result
33 // in a C++ string.
34 //
35 // Use this instead of strerror(). Note though that safe_strerror_r will be
36 // more robust in the case of heap corruption errors, since it doesn't need to
37 // allocate a string.
38 BASE_EXPORT std::string safe_strerror(int err);
39
40 } // namespace base
41
42 #endif // BASE_POSIX_SAFE_STRERROR_H_
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