lib/alt_functions.c

This is lib/alt_functions.c, an example to accompany the book, The Linux Programming Interface.

This file is not printed in the book; it is a supplementary file for Chapter 3.

The source code file is copyright 2024, Michael Kerrisk, and is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3.

In the listing below, the names of Linux system calls and C library functions are hyperlinked to manual pages from the Linux man-pages project, and the names of functions implemented in the book are hyperlinked to the implementations of those functions.

 

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/* ALT_functions.c

   Some library functions on Linux are not available on other UNIX
   implementations. Below are some implementations (in some cases quite
   minimal) of those functions used by our programs.

   Each of these functions has a name of the form ALT_xxx() where xxx() is the
   function being replaced. (#defines are used elsewhere to convert the
   standard names into these alternate forms.)
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include "alt_functions.h"

/* A very minimal implementation of strsignal()... */

#define BUF_SIZE 100
char *
ALT_strsignal(int sig)
{
    static char buf[BUF_SIZE];          /* Not thread-safe */

    snprintf(buf, BUF_SIZE, "SIG-%d", sig);
    return buf;
}
/* A very minimal implementation of hstrerror()... */

char *
ALT_hstrerror(int err)
{
    static char buf[BUF_SIZE];          /* Not thread-safe */

    snprintf(buf, BUF_SIZE, "hstrerror-%d", err);
    return buf;
}
/* posix_openpt() is simple to implement */

int
ALT_posix_openpt(int flags)
{
    return open("/dev/ptmx", flags);
}

 

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