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Title "ERR_ERROR_STRING 3" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
way too many mistakes in technical documents.
ERR_error_string, ERR_error_string_n, ERR_lib_error_string, ERR_func_error_string, ERR_reason_error_string - obtain human-readable error message Header "SYNOPSIS" .Vb 1 #include <openssl/err.h> \& char *ERR_error_string(unsigned long e, char *buf); void ERR_error_string_n(unsigned long e, char *buf, size_t len); \& const char *ERR_lib_error_string(unsigned long e); const char *ERR_func_error_string(unsigned long e); const char *ERR_reason_error_string(unsigned long e); .Ve Header "DESCRIPTION" \fBERR_error_string() generates a human-readable string representing the error code e, and places it at buf. buf must be at least 256 bytes long. If buf is \s-1NULL\s0, the error string is placed in a static buffer. Note that this function is not thread-safe and does no checks on the size of the buffer; use ERR_error_string_n() instead.

\fBERR_error_string_n() is a variant of ERR_error_string() that writes at most len characters (including the terminating 0) and truncates the string if necessary. For ERR_error_string_n(), buf may not be \s-1NULL\s0.

The string will have the following format:

.Vb 1 error:[error code]:[library name]:[function name]:[reason string] .Ve

\fIerror code is an 8 digit hexadecimal number, library name, \fIfunction name and reason string are \s-1ASCII\s0 text.

\fBERR_lib_error_string(), ERR_func_error_string() and \fBERR_reason_error_string() return the library name, function name and reason string respectively.

If there is no text string registered for the given error code, the error string will contain the numeric code.

\fBERR_print_errors\|(3) can be used to print all error codes currently in the queue.

Header "RETURN VALUES" \fBERR_error_string() returns a pointer to a static buffer containing the string if buf == \s-1NULL\s0, buf otherwise.

\fBERR_lib_error_string(), ERR_func_error_string() and \fBERR_reason_error_string() return the strings, and \s-1NULL\s0 if none is registered for the error code.

Header "SEE ALSO" \fBERR_get_error\|(3), \fBERR_print_errors\|(3) Header "COPYRIGHT" Copyright 2000-2017 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the \*(L"License\*(R"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy in the file \s-1LICENSE\s0 in the source distribution or at <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.