X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/blobdiff_plain/aaf70a50e13231ba06df17d79147ac0d7fed6d91..80496d6edb1653bbc88c4403da048920ec6a5b59:/sbr/error.c

diff --git a/sbr/error.c b/sbr/error.c
index 184c9509..beb4ba6d 100644
--- a/sbr/error.c
+++ b/sbr/error.c
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
  * print out error message
  */
 void
-advise (char *what, char *fmt, ...)
+advise (const char *what, const char *fmt, ...)
 {
     va_list ap;
 
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ advise (char *what, char *fmt, ...)
  * print out error message and exit
  */
 void
-adios (char *what, const char *fmt, ...)
+adios (const char *what, const char *fmt, ...)
 {
     va_list ap;
 
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ admonish (char *what, char *fmt, ...)
  * main routine for printing error messages.
  */
 void
-advertise (char *what, char *tail, const char *fmt, va_list ap)
+advertise (const char *what, char *tail, const char *fmt, va_list ap)
 {
     int	eindex = errno;
     char buffer[BUFSIZ], err[BUFSIZ];
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ advertise (char *what, char *tail, const char *fmt, va_list ap)
 	if (*what) {
 	    iov->iov_len = strlen (iov->iov_base = " ");
 	    iov++;
-	    iov->iov_len = strlen (iov->iov_base = what);
+	    iov->iov_len = strlen (iov->iov_base = (void*)what);
 	    iov++;
 	    iov->iov_len = strlen (iov->iov_base = ": ");
 	    iov++;
@@ -107,6 +107,10 @@ advertise (char *what, char *tail, const char *fmt, va_list ap)
     iov->iov_len = strlen (iov->iov_base = "\n");
     iov++;
     if (writev (fileno (stderr), iob, iov - iob) < 0) {
-	advise ("stderr", "writev");
+        snprintf(buffer, sizeof buffer, "%s: write stderr failed: %d\n",
+            invo_name && *invo_name ? invo_name : "nmh", errno);
+        if (write(2, buffer, strlen(buffer)) == -1) {
+            /* Ignore.  if-statement needed to shut up compiler. */
+        }
     }
 }