On Aug 25 23:34, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hi, > > This crashes (yes it's odd code, but it shouldn't crash): > > #include <syslog.h> > #include <errno.h> > > int main(void) { > errno = -1; > syslog(LOG_ERR,"foo"); > } > > Indeed, one of the first things that vsyslog does is > > char *errtext = strerror (get_errno ()); > int errlen = strlen (errtext); > > And it happens that the current implementation of strerror() returns > NULL on invalid errno. This is not posix compliant: posix says that
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