As a part of c799d150d5e9dae I've introduced a test case that tests whether passing error object between processes works. The test spawns a child which reports a system error, parent process then reads the error and compares with expected output. Problem with this approach is that error message contains stringified errno which is not portable. FreeBSD has generally different messages than Linux. Therefore, use g_strerror() to do the errno to string translation for us. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com&gt; --- tests/commandtest.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/commandtest.c b/tests/commandtest.c index f4a2c67c05..d5092b7dd0 100644 --- a/tests/commandtest.c +++ b/tests/commandtest.c @@ -1272,6 +1272,7 @@ test28(const void *unused G_GNUC_UNUSED) /* Not strictly a virCommand test, but this is the easiest place * to test this lower-level interface. */ virErrorPtr err; + g_autofree char *msg = g_strdup_printf("some error message: %s", g_strerror(ENODATA)); if (virProcessRunInFork(test28Callback, NULL) != -1) { fprintf(stderr, "virProcessRunInFork did not fail\n"); @@ -1285,10 +1286,10 @@ test28(const void *unused G_GNUC_UNUSED) if (!(err->code == VIR_ERR_SYSTEM_ERROR && err->domain == 0 && - STREQ(err->message, "some error message: No data available") && + STREQ(err->message, msg) && err->level == VIR_ERR_ERROR && STREQ(err->str1, "%s") && - STREQ(err->str2, "some error message: No data available") && + STREQ(err->str2, msg) && err->int1 == ENODATA && err->int2 == -1)) { fprintf(stderr, "Unexpected error object\n"); -- 2.24.1