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ERR_ERROR_STRING(3) Library Functions Manual ERR_ERROR_STRING(3)

ERR_error_string, ERR_error_string_n, ERR_lib_error_string, ERR_func_error_string, ERR_reason_error_stringobtain human-readable OpenSSL error messages

#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);

() generates a human-readable string representing the error code e and places it in buf. buf must be at least 256 bytes long. If buf is NULL, 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.

() is a variant of ERR_error_string() that writes at most len characters (including the terminating NUL) and truncates the string if necessary. For ERR_error_string_n(), buf may not be NULL.

The string will have the following format:

error:[error code]:[library name]:[function name]:[reason string]

The error code is an 8-digit hexadecimal number. The library name, the function name, and the reason string are ASCII text.

(), (), and () return the library name, the function name, and the reason string, respectively.

The OpenSSL error strings should be loaded by calling ERR_load_crypto_strings(3) or, for SSL applications, SSL_load_error_strings(3) first. If there is no text string registered for the given error code, the error string will contain the numeric code.

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

ERR_error_string() returns a pointer to a static buffer containing the string if buf is NULL, or buf otherwise.

ERR_lib_error_string(), ERR_func_error_string(), and ERR_reason_error_string() return the strings, or NULL if none is registered for the error code.

ERR(3), ERR_get_error(3), ERR_load_crypto_strings(3), ERR_print_errors(3), SSL_load_error_strings(3)

ERR_error_string(), ERR_lib_error_string(), ERR_func_error_string(), and ERR_reason_error_string() first appeared in SSLeay 0.4.4 and have been available since OpenBSD 2.4.

ERR_error_string_n() first appeared in OpenSSL 0.9.6 and has been available since OpenBSD 2.9.

March 27, 2018 OpenBSD-7.1