On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 05:58:35PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote: > > We have about 240 calls to strerror(). > > ...and, unfortunately, a variant that converts to UTF-8 and is API-compatible > is non-trivial, > as any version that allocates a buffer for the result of the conversion would > leak memory > we just globally replaced strerror() with ws_strerror().
g_strerror() [1]? Returns : a UTF-8 string describing the error code. If the error code is unknown, it returns "unknown error (<code>)". The string can only be used until the next call to g_strerror() [1] http://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.28/glib-String-Utility-Functions.html#g-strerror ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe
