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authorMykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>2024-11-11 21:29:16 +0000
committerAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>2024-11-11 20:29:20 -0800
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libbpf: Introduce errstr() for stringifying errno
Add function errstr(int err) that allows converting numeric error codes into string representations. Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241111212919.368971-2-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
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diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/str_error.h b/tools/lib/bpf/str_error.h
index 626d7ffb03d6..66ffebde0684 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/str_error.h
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/str_error.h
@@ -6,4 +6,11 @@
char *libbpf_strerror_r(int err, char *dst, int len);
+/**
+ * @brief **errstr()** returns string corresponding to numeric errno
+ * @param err negative numeric errno
+ * @return pointer to string representation of the errno, that is invalidated
+ * upon the next call.
+ */
+const char *errstr(int err);
#endif /* __LIBBPF_STR_ERROR_H */