Public bug reported:
During build, the following warning appears:
page.c: In function 'stringErrorReport':
page.c:46:2: warning: return makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled
by default]
return strerror_r(errno,(char *)err_message,128);
^
It indicates the XSI version of strerror_r is being used, but the code
is expecting the GNU one (see the man page for strerror_r).
This bug will manifest as a lack of detailed error messages (because it
will think strerror is returning NULL most of the time). But on the
off-chance that 128 bytes isn't long enough for the error message, it
means that electric-fence will try to print from a bogus address like 32
(errno value).
** Affects: electric-fence (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Fix usage of strerror_r
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