handle both positive and negative errno's

diff --git a/src/pulsecore/core-error.c b/src/pulsecore/core-error.c
index 3d6c2c3be628cd6f144626a7a541507814ec494a..d9caa9465b5a430382f624aca718dde1d48fe9e1 100644 (file)
--- a/src/pulsecore/core-error.c
+++ b/src/pulsecore/core-error.c
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ const char* pa_cstrerror(int errnum) {
     char *translated, *t;
     char errbuf[128];
 
+    if (errnum < 0)
+        errnum = -errnum;
+
     if ((t = PA_STATIC_TLS_GET(cstrerror)))
         pa_xfree(t);