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+// Copyright 2020 The Abseil Authors.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+#ifndef ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_STRERROR_H_
+#define ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_STRERROR_H_
+
+#include <string>
+
+#include "absl/base/config.h"
+
+namespace absl {
+ABSL_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
+namespace base_internal {
+
+// A portable and thread-safe alternative to C89's `strerror`.
+//
+// The C89 specification of `strerror` is not suitable for use in a
+// multi-threaded application as the returned string may be changed by calls to
+// `strerror` from another thread.  The many non-stdlib alternatives differ
+// enough in their names, availability, and semantics to justify this wrapper
+// around them.  `errno` will not be modified by a call to `absl::StrError`.
+std::string StrError(int errnum);
+
+}  // namespace base_internal
+ABSL_NAMESPACE_END
+}  // namespace absl
+
+#endif  // ABSL_BASE_INTERNAL_STRERROR_H_