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EAI_BADFLAGS
EAI_FAIL
EAI_FAMILY
EAI_MEMORY
EAI_NONAME
EAI_SERVICE
EAI_SOCKTYPE
EAI_SYSTEM
Copyright (c) 2001, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. and The Open Group. All Rights Reserved.
Portions Copyright (c) 2003, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Sun Microsystems, Inc. gratefully acknowledges The Open Group for permission to reproduce portions of its copyrighted documentation. Original documentation from The Open Group can be obtained online at
http://www.opengroup.org/bookstore/.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and The Open Group, have given us permission to reprint portions of their documentation. In the following statement, the phrase "this text" refers to portions of the system documentation. Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form in the Sun OS Reference Manual, from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2004 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between these versions and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html.
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GAI_STRERROR 3XNET "Dec 1, 2003"
NAME
gai_strerror - address and name information error description
SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lxnet [ library ... ] #include <netdb.h> const char *gai_strerror(int ecode);
DESCRIPTION
The gai_strerror() function returns a text string describing an error value for the getaddrinfo(3XNET) and getnameinfo(3XNET) functions listed in the <netdb.h> header.
When the ecode argument is one of the following values listed in the <netdb.h> header: EAI_AGAIN
the function return value points to a string describing the error. If the argument is not one of those values, the function returns a pointer to a string whose contents indicate an unknown error.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, gai_strerror() returns a pointer to a string describing the error value.
ERRORS
No errors are defined.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
| Interface Stability Standard |
| MT-Level MT-Safe |
SEE ALSO
getaddrinfo(3XNET), getnameinfo(3XNET), attributes(5), standards(5)