GNU bug report logs - #43979
strerror return value

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From: Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk <at> spth.de>
To: bug-parted <at> gnu.org
Subject: strerror return value
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 19:05:30 +0200

This is just a very minor issue.

libparted contains some calls to strerror where the result is assigned
to a char *. However, according to the strerror specification, the
string returned by strerror should never be changed, so it would be
better to use const char * instead.

This affects one line each in

libparted/arch/beos.c
libparted/arch/linux.c

Philipp

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