[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: fix API to get error string

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 10/31/2018 5:19 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> rte_strerror uses strerror_r(), and strerror_r() has two version of it.
> - XSI-compliant version, (_POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L) && !  _GNU_SOURCE
> - GNU-specific version
> 
> Those two has different return types, so the exiting return type check
> is not correct for GNU-specific version.
> 
> And this is causing failure in errno_autotest unit test.
> 
> Adding different implementation for FreeBSD and Linux.
> 
> Fixes: 016c32bd3e3d ("eal: cleanup strerror function")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>

self Nack, in favor of http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/47706/