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+#! /usr/bin/env perl
+# Copyright 2018 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License"). You may not use
+# this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy
+# in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
+# https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html
+
+use strict;
+no strict 'refs'; # To be able to use strings as function refs
+use OpenSSL::Test;
+use Errno qw(:POSIX);
+use POSIX qw(strerror);
+
+# We actually have space for up to 4095 error messages,
+# numerically speaking... but we're currently only using
+# numbers 1 through 127.
+# This constant should correspond to the same constant
+# defined in crypto/err/err.c, or at least must not be
+# assigned a greater number.
+use constant NUM_SYS_STR_REASONS => 127;
+
+setup('test_errstr');
+
+# These are POSIX error names, which Errno implements as functions
+# (this is documented)
+my @posix_errors = @{$Errno::EXPORT_TAGS{POSIX}};
+
+plan tests => scalar @posix_errors
+ +1 # Checking that error 128 gives 'reason(128)'
+ +1 # Checking that error 0 gives the library name
+ ;
+
+foreach my $errname (@posix_errors) {
+ my $errnum = "Errno::$errname"->();
+
+ SKIP: {
+ skip "Error $errname ($errnum) isn't within our range", 1
+ if $errnum > NUM_SYS_STR_REASONS;
+
+ my $perr = eval {
+ # Set $! to the error number...
+ local $! = $errnum;
+ # ... and $! will give you the error string back
+ $!
+ };
+
+ # We know that the system reasons are in OpenSSL error library 2
+ my @oerr = run(app([ qw(openssl errstr), sprintf("2%06x", $errnum) ]),
+ capture => 1);
+ $oerr[0] =~ s|\R$||;
+ $oerr[0] =~ s|.*system library:||g; # The actual message is last
+
+ ok($oerr[0] eq $perr, "($errnum) '$oerr[0]' == '$perr'");
+ }
+}
+
+my @after = run(app([ qw(openssl errstr 2000080) ]), capture => 1);
+$after[0] =~ s|\R$||;
+$after[0] =~ s|.*system library:||g;
+ok($after[0] eq "reason(128)", "(128) '$after[0]' == 'reason(128)'");
+
+my @zero = run(app([ qw(openssl errstr 2000000) ]), capture => 1);
+$zero[0] =~ s|\R$||;
+$zero[0] =~ s|.*system library:||g;
+ok($zero[0] eq "system library", "(0) '$zero[0]' == 'system library'");