perror adding Success to end of error text

Not really sure what is going on here. The error message I have prints out and the program quits but it seems "Success" is being added to the end of my error message

Code:

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void error(const char* msg)
{

perror(msg);
exit(1);

}

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Then when I have an error I do:

Code:

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error("ERROR: input contains bad characters");

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The program exits but the message that is printed is:
"ERROR: input contains bad characters: Success"

Any idea why I am getting this success or how to fix this?

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Originally Posted by potatoes1

Not really sure what is going on here. The error message I have prints out and the program quits but it seems "Success" is being added to the end of my error message

Code:

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void error(const char* msg)
{

perror(msg);
exit(1);

}

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Then when I have an error I do:

Code:

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error("ERROR: input contains bad characters");

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The program exits but the message that is printed is:
"ERROR: input contains bad characters: Success"

Any idea why I am getting this success or how to fix this?

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Per perror - C++ Reference

I think your errno is set to a value that is changed to success.

Tim S.