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Austin Schuhb4691e92020-12-31 12:37:18 -08001// Copyright 2020 The Abseil Authors.
2//
3// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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8//
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14
15#ifndef ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_STRERROR_H_
16#define ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_STRERROR_H_
17
18#include <string>
19
20#include "absl/base/config.h"
21
22namespace absl {
23ABSL_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
24namespace base_internal {
25
26// A portable and thread-safe alternative to C89's `strerror`.
27//
28// The C89 specification of `strerror` is not suitable for use in a
29// multi-threaded application as the returned string may be changed by calls to
30// `strerror` from another thread. The many non-stdlib alternatives differ
31// enough in their names, availability, and semantics to justify this wrapper
32// around them. `errno` will not be modified by a call to `absl::StrError`.
33std::string StrError(int errnum);
34
35} // namespace base_internal
36ABSL_NAMESPACE_END
37} // namespace absl
38
39#endif // ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_STRERROR_H_