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| author | Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl> | 2015-07-30 18:52:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl> | 2015-08-18 16:10:37 +0200 |
| commit | 96fc77d5d998d7a70c4a1c705900432a7a4f828d (patch) | |
| tree | 02f51517f9e8c9a21a438e90c68847fee4346b90 /docs/src | |
| parent | df62b54aa2b3d916ca442ee84f0678129a848c4f (diff) | |
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unix,windows: don't assert on unknown error code
Make uv_err_name() and uv_strerror() return a dynamically allocated
string when the error code is not recognized.
It leaks a few bytes of memory but that can't be helped. Asserting
and aborting is, in my opinion, much less helpful.
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/63
PR-URL: https://github.com/libuv/libuv/pull/467
Reviewed-By: Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <saghul@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/src/errors.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/src/errors.rst b/docs/src/errors.rst index 5d59dc30..cec25f51 100644 --- a/docs/src/errors.rst +++ b/docs/src/errors.rst @@ -322,8 +322,10 @@ API .. c:function:: const char* uv_strerror(int err) - Returns the error message for the given error code. + Returns the error message for the given error code. Leaks a few bytes + of memory when you call it with an unknown error code. .. c:function:: const char* uv_err_name(int err) - Returns the error name for the given error code. + Returns the error name for the given error code. Leaks a few bytes + of memory when you call it with an unknown error code. |