Commit 665d9e30 authored by unknown's avatar unknown
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Bug#25344 Segmentation violation when try to run the perror utility 

 - strerror might return NULL on some platforms


extra/perror.c:
  Backport fix from 5.0
parent b93d81a8

extra/perror.c

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@@ -217,8 +217,11 @@ int main(int argc,char *argv[]) 
      On some system, like NETWARE, strerror(unknown_error) returns a

      string 'Unknown Error'.  To avoid printing it we try to find the

      error string by asking for an impossible big error message.



      On Solaris 2.8 it might return NULL

    */

    msg= strerror(10000);

    if ((msg= strerror(10000)) == NULL)

      msg= "Unknown Error";



    /*

      Allocate a buffer for unknown_error since strerror always returns