519773 - RFE: error number to string translation

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 329017

(NSS :: Libraries, enhancement)

Description

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

forwarded from 
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526121

"Please provide a way for an application that uses NSS to easily translate an
error number into a string (translated to reflect the current locale, if
possible) - from a quick look it seems PR_ErrorInstallTable() would be useful,
or perhaps just make SECU_Strerror() available.

AFAICS currently a program that links to NSS must maintain it's own error
number to string translation tables, which is rather ridiculous."

Comment 1

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

I guess the error strings are available in mozilla/security/nss/cmd/lib/SECerrs.h
which is outside the lib.

I believe the first step to solving this bug would be:
  move the list of strings to the lib