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1*0Sstevel@tonic-gate #ifndef errmsg_h
2*0Sstevel@tonic-gate #define errmsg_h
3*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
4*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
5*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Copyright (c) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by Martin C. Shepherd.
6*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  *
7*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * All rights reserved.
8*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  *
9*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
10*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
11*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
12*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
13*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * distribute, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons
14*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * to whom the Software is furnished to do so, provided that the above
15*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * copyright notice(s) and this permission notice appear in all copies of
16*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * the Software and that both the above copyright notice(s) and this
17*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * permission notice appear in supporting documentation.
18*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  *
19*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
20*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
21*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
22*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR
23*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * HOLDERS INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, OR ANY SPECIAL
24*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING
25*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
26*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
27*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
28*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  *
29*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Except as contained in this notice, the name of a copyright holder
30*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use
31*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * or other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization
32*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * of the copyright holder.
33*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
34*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
35*0Sstevel@tonic-gate #pragma ident	"%Z%%M%	%I%	%E% SMI"
36*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
37*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
38*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Set the longest expected length of an error message (excluding its
39*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * '\0' terminator. Since any message over a nominal terminal width of
40*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * 80 characters is going to look a mess, it makes no sense to support
41*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * huge lengths. Note that many uses of strings declared with this
42*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * macro assume that it will be at least 81, so don't reduce it below
43*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * this limit.
44*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
45*0Sstevel@tonic-gate #define ERR_MSG_LEN 128
46*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
47*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
48*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Provide an opaque typedef to the error-message object.
49*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
50*0Sstevel@tonic-gate typedef struct ErrMsg ErrMsg;
51*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
52*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
53*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * The following token is used to terminate the argument lists of calls
54*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * to _err_record_msg().
55*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
56*0Sstevel@tonic-gate #define END_ERR_MSG ((const char *)0)
57*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
58*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
59*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Allocate a new error-message buffer.
60*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
61*0Sstevel@tonic-gate ErrMsg *_new_ErrMsg(void);
62*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
63*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
64*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Delete an error message buffer.
65*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
66*0Sstevel@tonic-gate ErrMsg *_del_ErrMsg(ErrMsg *err);
67*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
68*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
69*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Concatenate a list of string arguments into the specified buffer, buff[],
70*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * which has an allocated size of buffdim characters.
71*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * The last argument must be END_ERR_MSG to terminate the argument list.
72*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
73*0Sstevel@tonic-gate void _err_record_msg(ErrMsg *err, ...);
74*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
75*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
76*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Replace the current error message with an empty string.
77*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
78*0Sstevel@tonic-gate void _err_clear_msg(ErrMsg *err);
79*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
80*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
81*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Return a pointer to the error message buffer. This is
82*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * a '\0' terminated character array containing ERR_MSG_LEN+1
83*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * elements.
84*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
85*0Sstevel@tonic-gate char *_err_get_msg(ErrMsg *err);
86*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
87*0Sstevel@tonic-gate #endif
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