> On Aug 1, 2018, at 4:42 AM, Matt Caswell <matt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Please can you submit this problem as a github issue: > > https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues We certainly need to raise the buffer size, for example on MacOS/X and FreeBSD errno 47 has a (coincidentally) 47-byte long error message: $ perl -le ' for ($i = 0; $i < 256; ++$i) { $! = $i; $l = length("$!"); if ($l > $m) { $m = $l; $n = $i; } last if ($i eq "$!"); } $! = $n; print "$i: $n: $m: $!"; ' 97[*]: 47: 47: Address family not supported by protocol family This will also be affected by the locale. I'd set the limit generously at 128 bytes. -- -- Viktor. [*] FreeBSD has 96 error strings, while running the same Perl script on MacOS/X demonstrates 106 error strings. -- openssl-users mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-users
