I think it would be a useful addition to the errno/strerror/whatever
modules to be able to convert from the numeric errno to the symbolic
one.
e.g.,
char * errno_name () {
switch (errno) {
#ifdef ENOENT
case ENOENT : return "ENOENT";
#endif
default: return NULL;
}
}
the idea is that the error "explanation" (returned by strerror) is
different on different platforms (and especially if i18n is involved)
and is hard to search for on the web and in docs, while strings like
ENOENT et al are quite canonical and tell the expert everything they
need to know.
I am not proposing replacing strerror, of course; this is merely an
_addition_.
Thanks.
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