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124N/A<body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en">
124N/A<a name="id2462968"></a><div class="titlepage"></div>
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124N/A<h2>Name</h2>
124N/A<p>lwres_herror, lwres_hstrerror &#8212; lightweight resolver error message generation</p>
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124N/A<div class="refsynopsisdiv">
124N/A<h2>Synopsis</h2>
124N/A<div class="funcsynopsis">
124N/A<pre class="funcsynopsisinfo">#include &lt;lwres/netdb.h&gt;</pre>
124N/A<p><code class="funcdef">
124N/Avoid
124N/A<b class="fsfunc">lwres_herror</b>(</code>const char *<var class="pdparam">s</var><code>)</code>;</p>
124N/A<p><code class="funcdef">
124N/Aconst char *
124N/A<b class="fsfunc">lwres_hstrerror</b>(</code>int <var class="pdparam">err</var><code>)</code>;</p>
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124N/A<div class="refsect1" lang="en">
124N/A<a name="id2525188"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
124N/A<p><code class="function">lwres_herror()</code>
124N/A prints the string <em class="parameter"><code>s</code></em> on
124N/A <span class="type">stderr</span> followed by the string generated by
124N/A <code class="function">lwres_hstrerror()</code> for the error code stored
124N/A in the global variable <code class="constant">lwres_h_errno</code>.
124N/A </p>
124N/A<p><code class="function">lwres_hstrerror()</code>
124N/A returns an appropriate string for the error code gievn by
124N/A <em class="parameter"><code>err</code></em>. The values of the error codes and
124N/A messages are as follows:
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124N/A </p>
124N/A<div class="variablelist"><dl>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="errorcode">NETDB_SUCCESS</span></span></dt>
<dd><p><span class="errorname">Resolver Error 0 (no error)</span>
</p></dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="errorcode">HOST_NOT_FOUND</span></span></dt>
<dd><p><span class="errorname">Unknown host</span>
</p></dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="errorcode">TRY_AGAIN</span></span></dt>
<dd><p><span class="errorname">Host name lookup failure</span>
</p></dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="errorcode">NO_RECOVERY</span></span></dt>
<dd><p><span class="errorname">Unknown server error</span>
</p></dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="errorcode">NO_DATA</span></span></dt>
<dd><p><span class="errorname">No address associated with name</span>
</p></dd>
</dl></div>
<p>
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<a name="id2525306"></a><h2>RETURN VALUES</h2>
<p>
The string <span class="errorname">Unknown resolver error</span> is returned by
<code class="function">lwres_hstrerror()</code>
when the value of
<code class="constant">lwres_h_errno</code>
is not a valid error code.
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<a name="id2525326"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
<p><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">herror</span>(3)</span>,
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">lwres_hstrerror</span>(3)</span>.
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