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of a library call. The functions strerror and perror give you the standard error message for a given error code; the variable program_invocation_short_name gives you convenient access to the name of the program that encountered the extern c syntax error string error. Function: char * strerror (int errnum) Preliminary: | MT-Unsafe race:strerror | AS-Unsafe heap error reading characters of string c i18n | AC-Unsafe mem | See POSIX Safety Concepts. The strerror function maps the error code (see Checking for Errors) specified by c error function the errnum argument to a descriptive error message string. The return value is a pointer to this string. The value errnum normally comes from the variable errno. You should not modify the string returned by strerror. Also, strerror in c if you make subsequent calls to strerror, the string might be overwritten. (But it’s guaranteed that no library function ever calls strerror behind your back.) The function strerror is declared in string.h. Function: char * strerror_r (int errnum, char *buf, size_t n) Preliminary: | MT-Safe | AS-Unsafe i18n | AC-Unsafe | See POSIX Safety Concepts. The strerror_r function works like strerror but instead of returning the error message in a statically allocated buffer
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shared by all threads in the process, it returns a private copy for the thread. This might be either some permanent global data or a message string in the user supplied buffer starting at buf with the length of n bytes. At most n characters are written (including the NUL byte) so it is up to the user to select a buffer large enough. This function should always be used in multi-threaded programs since there is no way to guarantee the string returned by strerror really belongs to the last call of the current thread. The function strerror_r is a GNU extension and it is declared in string.h. Function: void perror (const char *message) Preliminary: | MT-Safe race:stderr | AS-Unsafe corrupt i18n heap lock | AC-Unsafe corrupt lock mem fd | See POSIX Safety Concepts. This function prints an error message to the stream stderr; see Standard Streams. The orientation of stderr is not changed. If you call perror with a message that is either a null pointer or an empty string, perror just prints the error message corresponding to errno, adding a trailing newline. If you supply a non-null message argument, then perror prefixes its output with this string. It adds a colon and a space character to separate the message from the error string correspondi
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in secure programming because they comprise most of the data exchanged between an c error codes end user and a software system. This chapter covers the security issues with strings and how you can sidestep them. This c error handling best practices chapter is from the book This chapter is from the book Secure Coding in C and C++ Learn More Buy This chapter is from the book This chapter is from the book Secure http://www.gnu.org/s/libc/manual/html_node/Error-Messages.html Coding in C and C++ Learn More Buy with Dan Plakosh and Jason Rafail1 But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate.
--Edgar Allan Poe "The Fall of the House of Usher" Strings--such as command-line arguments, environment variables, and console input--are of special concern in secure programming because they comprise most of the data exchanged between an end user and a software system. Graphic and http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=430402&seqNum=2 Web-based applications make extensive use of text input fields and, because of standards like XML, data exchanged between programs is increasingly in string form as well. As a result, weaknesses in string representation, string management, and string manipulation have led to a broad range of software vulnerabilities and exploits. 2.1 String Characteristics Strings are a fundamental concept in software engineering, but they are not a built-in type in C or C++. C-style strings consist of a contiguous sequence of characters terminated by and including the first null character. A pointer to a string points to its initial character. The length of a string is the number of bytes preceding the null character, and the value of a string is the sequence of the values of the contained characters, in order. A wide string is a contiguous sequence of wide characters terminated by and including the first null wide character. A pointer to a wide string points to its initial (lowest addressed) wide character. The length of a wide string is the number of wide characters preceding the null wide character and the value of a wide string is the sequence of code values of the contained wide characters, in order. Strings in C++ C-style strings are stiif set to errno by a function of the library. The returned pointer points http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstring/strerror/ to a statically allocated string, which shall not be modified by the program. Further calls to this function may overwrite its content (particular library implementations are not required to avoid data races). The error strings produced by strerror may be specific to each system and library implementation. Parameters errnum c error Error number. Return Value A pointer to the error string describing error errnum. Example 1
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