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-rw-r--r--libbb/xregcomp.c11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libbb/xregcomp.c b/libbb/xregcomp.c
index 6e9a29f..157132c 100644
--- a/libbb/xregcomp.c
+++ b/libbb/xregcomp.c
@@ -11,13 +11,22 @@
#include "libbb.h"
#include "xregex.h"
-void xregcomp(regex_t *preg, const char *regex, int cflags)
+char* regcomp_or_errmsg(regex_t *preg, const char *regex, int cflags)
{
int ret = regcomp(preg, regex, cflags);
if (ret) {
int errmsgsz = regerror(ret, preg, NULL, 0);
char *errmsg = xmalloc(errmsgsz);
regerror(ret, preg, errmsg, errmsgsz);
+ return errmsg;
+ }
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+void xregcomp(regex_t *preg, const char *regex, int cflags)
+{
+ char *errmsg = regcomp_or_errmsg(preg, regex, cflags);
+ if (errmsg) {
bb_error_msg_and_die("xregcomp: %s", errmsg);
}
}