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Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] Introduce die_errno() that appends strerror(errno) to die()

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 8, 2009, 22:07 UTC
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<20090608220713.GB29942@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 11:02:18PM +0200, Thomas Rast wrote:
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> +void die_errno(const char *fmt, ...)
> +{
> +	va_list params;
> +	char fmt_with_err[1024];
> +
> +	snprintf(fmt_with_err, sizeof(fmt_with_err), "%s: %s", fmt, strerror(errno));
> +
> +	va_start(params, fmt);
> +	die_routine(fmt_with_err, params);
> +	va_end(params);
> +}

Aren't you assuming that strerror(errno) has no '%'-signs here, which is what kicked off the whole discussion?

-Peff
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Message 5 of 14 in “die_errno()”
  1. 0/3 die_errno()Thomas Rast, Jun 8, 2009
  2. 1/3 Introduce die_errno() that appends strerror(errno) to die()Thomas Rast, Jun 8, 2009
  3. 2/3 Convert existing die(..., strerror(errno)) to die_errno()Thomas Rast, Jun 8, 2009
  4. 3/3 Use die_errno() instead of die() when checking syscallsThomas Rast, Jun 8, 2009
  5. Jeff KingJun 8, 2009
  6. Thomas RastJun 9, 2009
  7. Jeff KingJun 9, 2009
  8. Andreas EricssonJun 9, 2009
  9. 0/4 die_errno()Thomas Rast, Jun 27, 2009
  10. 1/4 Introduce die_errno() that appends strerror(errno) to die()Thomas Rast, Jun 27, 2009
  11. 2/4 die_errno(): double % in strerror() output just in caseThomas Rast, Jun 27, 2009
  12. 3/4 Convert existing die(..., strerror(errno)) to die_errno()Thomas Rast, Jun 27, 2009
  13. 4/4 Use die_errno() instead of die() when checking syscallsThomas Rast, Jun 27, 2009
  14. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2009

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