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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers This is going to sound dumb but... Post 88385 by blowtorch on Thursday 3rd of November 2005 02:14:33 PM
Old 11-03-2005
You would have found this in the FAQs if you had checked: Unix Tutorials/Programming Tutorials/Shell Scripting Tutorials. On this page, check the Shell Scripting Tutorials section.
 

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dlerror(3C)															       dlerror(3C)

NAME
dlerror - get diagnostic information SYNOPSIS
[flag ... ] file ... [library] ... DESCRIPTION
is one of a family of routines that give the user direct access to the dynamic linking facilities (using the option on the compiler or com- mand line). returns a null-terminated character string (with no trailing newline) that describes the last error that occurred during dynamic linking processing. If no dynamic linking errors have occurred since the last invocation of returns NULL. Thus, invoking second time, immediately following a prior invocation, results in NULL being returned. MULTITHREAD USAGE
This routine is thread-safe. WARNINGS
The messages returned by may reside in a static buffer that is overwritten on each call to Application code should not write to this buf- fer. Programs wishing to preserve an error message should make their own copies of that message. SEE ALSO
dlclose(3C), dlopen(3C), dlsym(3C). Texts and Tutorials: (See the option) (See manuals(5) for ordering information) dlerror(3C)
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