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Manual Pages  — PCAP_STRERROR

NAME

pcap_strerror - convert an errno value to a string

CONTENTS

SYNOPSIS

#include <pcap/pcap.h>


const char *pcap_strerror(int error);

DESCRIPTION

This function returns an error message string corresponding to error. It uses either strerror(3) or its thread-safe variant if one is available, which currently is the case in every supported OS.

BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY

This function was not thread-safe in libpcap before 1.8.1 on Windows and in libpcap before 1.10.5 on all other OSes.

SEE ALSO

pcap(3)
26 August 2024 PCAP_STRERROR (3)
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