PERROR(1) BSD General Commands Manual PERROR(1)NAME
perror -- print an error number as a string
SYNOPSIS
perror number
DESCRIPTION
The perror program takes a raw errno value and prints it as a string.
SEE ALSO perror(3)HISTORY
The perror program first appeared in FreeBSD 8.0.
AUTHORS
George V. Neville-Neil
BSD May 12, 2009 BSD
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PERROR(1) General Commands Manual PERROR(1)NAME
perror can be used to display a description for a system error code, or an MyISAM/ISAM table handler error code. The error messages are
mostly system dependent.
USAGE
perror [OPTIONS] [ERRORCODE [ERRORCODE...]]
SYNOPSIS
perror [-?|--help] [-I|--info] [-s|--silent] [-v|--verbose] [-V|--version]
DESCRIPTION
-?|--help
Displays this help and exits.
-I|--info
Synonym for the above.
-s|--silent
Only print the error message
-v|--verbose
Print error code and message (default).
-V|--version
Displays version information and exits.
EXAMPLE
shell> perror 64 79 Error code 64: Machine is not on the network Error code 79: Can not access a needed shared library
SEE ALSO
isamchk (1), isamlog (1), mysqlaccess (1), mysqladmin (1), mysqlbug (1), mysqld (1), mysqldump (1), mysqlshow (1), msql2mysql (1), perror
(1), replace (1), safe_mysqld (1), which1 (1), zap (1),
AUTHOR
Ver 1.0, distribution 3.23.29a Michael (Monty) Widenius (monty@tcx.se), TCX Datakonsult AB (http://www.tcx.se). This software comes with
no warranty. Manual page by L. (Kill-9) Pedersen (kill-9@kill-9.dk), Mercurmedia Data Model Architect / system developer (http://www.mer-
curmedia.com)
19 December 2000 PERROR(1)
Dear all,
I use perror in order to print an error message to the standar error. For example
if a C program is called without its two necessary command line parameters
then :
if (argc != 3)
{
perror("use: ./myProgram <source file> <target file>\n");
return 1;
}
Now the... (2 Replies)
here the program gives a odd result:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(){
perror("first");
perror("next");
return 0;
}
result:
first: Success
next: Illegal seek
why? any resonable explanation? i found no information about this in man pages.
thanks in advance (2 Replies)
I have following problem with this code..
First time trough the main loop.....
perror gives ....blocked signal:success(all other times gives illlegal seek)
Should every time trought the main loop be success??
And the perror otside of main loop...didn't change mask:success
That line of code... (2 Replies)
i am trying to use the perror function:
something like
perror("WRONG!!!");
but when i see the message in the terminal, it comes out like
WRONG!!! : Success
How can i change it to
WRONG!!! : WRONG!!!
well i just want to have my own custom message for the part after the colon... (1 Reply)