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+/* PD implementation of strerror() for BSD derivatives that don't have it.
+   Author: Guido van Rossum, CWI Amsterdam, Oct. 1990, <guido@cwi.nl>. */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+extern int sys_nerr;
+extern char *sys_errlist[];
+
+char *
+strerror(err)
+	int err;
+{
+	static char buf[20];
+	if (err >= 0 && err < sys_nerr)
+		return sys_errlist[err];
+	sprintf(buf, "Unknown errno %d", err);
+	return buf;
+}