11.7 gai_strerror Function

11.7 gai_strerror Function

The nonzero error return values from getaddrinfo have the names and meanings shown in Figure 11.7. The function gai_strerror takes one of these values as an argument and returns a pointer to the corresponding error string.

Figure 11.7. Nonzero error return constants from getaddrinfo .

#include <netdb.h>

const char *gai_strerror (int error );

Returns: pointer to string describing error message