I am TENTATIVELY checking in Martin von Loewis's patch for the SSL problem reported by Neil Schemenauer on python-dev on 4/12/01, wth subject "Problem with SSL and socketmodule on Debian Potato?". It's tentative because Moshe objected, but Martin rebutted, and Moshe seems unavailable for comments. (Note that with OpenSSL 0.9.6a, I get a lot of compilation warnings for socketmodule.c -- I'm assuming I can safely ignore these until 2.1 is released.)

/* PD implementation of strerror() for systems that don't have it.
   Author: Guido van Rossum, CWI Amsterdam, Oct. 1990, <guido@cwi.nl>. */

#include <stdio.h>

extern int sys_nerr;
extern char *sys_errlist[];

char *
strerror(int err)
{
	static char buf[20];
	if (err >= 0 && err < sys_nerr)
		return sys_errlist[err];
	sprintf(buf, "Unknown errno %d", err);
	return buf;
}

#ifdef macintosh
int sys_nerr = 0;
char *sys_errlist[1] = 0;
#endif