On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 12:56:21PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > Hi, > > perhaps this is known, but it struck me as odd: > when the string given to strtonum() correspomnds > is a valid numeric string, but the value is too small, > the error msg pointed to by strtonum will be "too small", > but the message corresponding to errno = ERANGE will be > "Result too large" (because that's ERANGE). Example below. > > There is hardly any better errno to be set of course, > but calling err() after a failed strtonum() might print > a message that is a bit confusing. >
Look at the example in strtonum(3). It uses errx for a reason. The errstr argument is enough to build a good error. -- :wq Claudio
