386BSD 0.1 development

Work on file usr/src/lib/libc/stdio/strerror.3

Co-Authored-By: Lynne Greer Jolitz <ljolitz@cardio.ucsf.edu>
Synthesized-from: 386BSD-0.1

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+.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991 Regents of the University of California.
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
+.\" the American National Standards Committee X3, on Information
+.\" Processing Systems.
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+.\"     @(#)strerror.3 6.9 (Berkeley) 6/29/91
+.\"
+.Dd June 29, 1991
+.Dt STRERROR 3
+.Os BSD 4
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm perror ,
+.Nm strerror ,
+.Nm sys_errlist ,
+.Nm sys_nerr
+.Nd system error messages
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Vt extern int errno;
+.Vt extern char *sys_errlist[];
+.Fd #include <stdio.h>
+.Ft void
+.Fn perror "const char *string"
+.Ft char *
+.Fn strerror "int errnum"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn strerror
+and
+.Fn perror
+functions lookup the error message string affiliated with an
+error number.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn sterror
+function accepts an error number argument
+.Fa errnum
+and
+returns a pointer to the corresponding
+message string.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn perror
+function finds the error message corresponding to the current
+value of the global variable
+.Va errno
+and writes it, followed by a new-line, to the
+.Em stderr .
+If the argument
+.Fa string
+is
+.Pf non- Dv NULL
+it is pre-appended to the message
+string and separated from it by
+a colon and space
+.Pq Ql \&:\ \& .
+If
+.Fa string
+is
+.Dv NULL
+only the error message string is printed.
+.Pp
+The message strings can be accessed directly using the external
+character array
+.Fa sys_errlist .
+The external value
+.Fa sys_nerr
+contains a count of the messages in
+.Fa sys_errlist .
+The use of these variables is deprecated;
+.Fn strerror
+should be used instead.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr intro 2 ,
+.Xr psignal 3
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn strerror
+and
+.Fn perror
+functions are
+.Ud .