Merge pull request #4868 from lioncash/discard-error

General: Make ignoring a discarded return value an error

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/common/misc.cpp b/src/common/misc.cpp
index 68cb86cd1..1d5393597 100644
--- a/src/common/misc.cpp
+++ b/src/common/misc.cpp
@@ -16,16 +16,23 @@
 // Call directly after the command or use the error num.
 // This function might change the error code.
 std::string GetLastErrorMsg() {
-    static const std::size_t buff_size = 255;
+    static constexpr std::size_t buff_size = 255;
     char err_str[buff_size];
 
 #ifdef _WIN32
     FormatMessageA(FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM, nullptr, GetLastError(),
                    MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT), err_str, buff_size, nullptr);
+    return std::string(err_str, buff_size);
+#elif defined(__GLIBC__) && (_GNU_SOURCE || (_POSIX_C_SOURCE < 200112L && _XOPEN_SOURCE < 600))
+    // Thread safe (GNU-specific)
+    const char* str = strerror_r(errno, err_str, buff_size);
+    return std::string(str);
 #else
     // Thread safe (XSI-compliant)
-    strerror_r(errno, err_str, buff_size);
+    const int success = strerror_r(errno, err_str, buff_size);
+    if (success != 0) {
+        return {};
+    }
+    return std::string(err_str);
 #endif
-
-    return std::string(err_str, buff_size);
 }