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31 .TH PERROR 3 2019-03-06 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
33 perror \- print a system error message
37 .BI "void perror(const char *" s );
41 .BI "const char * const " sys_errlist [];
45 .BI "int " errno "; \fR/* Not really declared this way; see errno(3) */"
48 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
49 .BR feature_test_macros (7)):
56 Glibc 2.19 and earlier:
61 function produces a message on standard error describing the last
62 error encountered during a call to a system or library function.
68 is not a null byte (\(aq\e0\(aq)), the argument string
70 is printed, followed by a colon and a blank.
71 Then an error message corresponding to the current value of
75 To be of most use, the argument string should include the name
76 of the function that incurred the error.
80 which can be indexed by
82 can be used to obtain the error message without the newline.
83 The largest message number provided in the table is
85 Be careful when directly accessing this list, because new error values
86 may not have been added to
90 is nowadays deprecated; use
94 When a system call fails, it usually returns \-1 and sets the
97 to a value describing what went wrong.
98 (These values can be found in
100 Many library functions do likewise.
103 serves to translate this error code into human-readable form.
106 is undefined after a successful system call or library function call:
107 this call may well change this variable, even though it succeeds,
108 for example because it internally used some other library function that failed.
109 Thus, if a failing call is not immediately followed by a call to
115 For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
121 Interface Attribute Value
124 T} Thread safety MT-Safe race:stderr
130 POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C89, C99, 4.3BSD.
136 derive from BSD, but are not specified in POSIX.1.
142 are defined by glibc, but in
144 .\" and only when _BSD_SOURCE is defined.
147 .\" is defined, the symbols