Bug 526121

Summary:	RFE: error number to string translation
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Miloslav Trmač <mitr>
Component:	nss	Assignee:	Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) <kengert>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	emaldona, kdudka, kengert
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Description Miloslav Trmač 2009-09-28 20:56:31 UTC

Please provide a way for an application that uses NSS to easily translate an error number into a string (translated to reflect the current locale, if possible) - from a quick look it seems PR_ErrorInstallTable() would be useful, or perhaps just make SECU_Strerror() available.

AFAICS currently a program that links to NSS must maintain it's own error number to string translation tables, which is rather ridiculous.

Comment 1 Kamil Dudka 2009-09-29 11:35:58 UTC

It looks like a good idea to me. We need exactly this in (lib)curl.

Comment 2 Kai Engert (:kaie) (inactive account) 2009-09-30 18:37:43 UTC

forwarded request to upstream
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519773