strerror

Arguments

Returns

An error message as a string.

Description

This function looks up error messages associated with error numbers.

Example

In this example, we first define a function to remove a file. Then we call that function on a non-existing file to generate an error. Finally, we check the returned error code to get the error message.

    function remove_file(file)
    {
       unlink(file);
       errno();
    }
    
    Gamma> ret_val = remove_file("/tmp/xyz");
    2
    Gamma> strerror(2);
    "No such file or directory"
    Gamma> 
    		

See Also

errno