/* * strerror - map error number to descriptive string * * This version is obviously somewhat Unix-specific. * * based on code by Henry Spencer * modified for ANSI by D'Arcy J.M. Cain */ #include #include #include extern const char * const sys_errlist[]; extern int sys_nerr; const char * strerror(int errnum) { static char buf[24]; if (errnum < 0 || errnum > sys_nerr) { sprintf(buf, "unknown error %d", errnum); return(buf); } return(sys_errlist[errnum]); }