Under AIX 4.3.3, the strerror_r() call returns an integer, not a
string pointer as expected by lib/error.c in the fileutils-4.0
distribution. The same source file is used in both the sh-utils-2.0
and textutils-2.0 distributions, and seems to have been fixed in both
places. I've attached a patch which shows the difference between the
version from fileutils-4.0 and the version from textutils-2.0.
Also, when is the next release of GNU fileutils expected to occur?
Back in March '99, I submitted a patch related to GNU df and the AIX
automounter, and I'd like to see both that patch and this fix make it
into a new release so that others can benefit from them. Thanks!
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Mark D. Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
System Administrator, CCSO Production Systems Group
http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/roth
--- fileutils-4.0/lib/error.c Fri Mar 27 11:22:34 1998
+++ textutils-2.0/lib/error.c Sun Dec 13 11:24:40 1998
@@ -152,7 +152,10 @@
{
#if defined HAVE_STRERROR_R || defined _LIBC
char errbuf[1024];
- fprintf (stderr, ": %s", __strerror_r (errnum, errbuf, sizeof errbuf));
+ /* Don't use __strerror_r's return value because on some systems
+ (at least DEC UNIX 4.0[A-D]) strerror_r returns `int'. */
+ __strerror_r (errnum, errbuf, sizeof errbuf);
+ fprintf (stderr, ": %s", errbuf);
#else
fprintf (stderr, ": %s", strerror (errnum));
#endif
