* bug#43987: strerror return value
@ 2020-10-14 11:23 Philipp Klaus Krause
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From: Philipp Klaus Krause @ 2020-10-14 11:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 43987
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This is just a very minor issue.
libguile contains two calls to strerror where the result is used to
initialize a char *. However, according to the strerror specification,
the string returned by strerror should never be changed, so I think it
would be better to use const char * instead.
Philipp
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diff --git a/libguile/posix.c b/libguile/posix.c
index 47769003a..5c7bb35bd 100644
--- a/libguile/posix.c
+++ b/libguile/posix.c
@@ -1272,7 +1272,7 @@ renumber_file_descriptor (int fd, int err)
{
/* At this point we are in the child process before exec. We
cannot safely raise an exception in this environment. */
- char *msg = strerror (errno);
+ const char *msg = strerror (errno);
fprintf (fdopen (err, "a"), "start_child: dup failed: %s\n", msg);
_exit (127); /* Use exit status 127, as with other exec errors. */
}
@@ -1356,7 +1356,7 @@ start_child (const char *exec_file, char **exec_argv,
/* The exec failed! There is nothing sensible to do. */
{
- char *msg = strerror (errno);
+ const char *msg = strerror (errno);
fprintf (fdopen (2, "a"), "In execvp of %s: %s\n",
exec_file, msg);
}
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