2004-11-19 David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>

	* log.c: (safe_strerror) New function: safe wrapper for strerror.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/log.c b/lib/log.c
index 375730f22..b24dacd89 100644
--- a/lib/log.c
+++ b/lib/log.c
@@ -498,3 +498,11 @@ mes_lookup (struct message *meslist, int max, int index)
     }
   return meslist[index].str;
 }
+
+/* Wrapper around strerror to handle case where it returns NULL. */
+const char *
+safe_strerror(int errnum)
+{
+  const char *s = strerror(errnum);
+  return (s != NULL) ? s : "Unknown error";
+}