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Errno

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Many functions write the errno value to indicate which error has occured. The list below associates errno values to their descriptions. Alternatively, perror() can be used to show the description of the error on the stderr descriptor (normally the same descriptor as the stdout). For example: 

 int fd; fd = [open](group__unistd#group__unistd_1gac843f2e35e60c3bbf1da47d84306f29b)("/noexist",O_RDONLY); if ( fd < 0 ){ perror("Could not open /noexist");}

The above code outputs "Could not open /noexist: No such file or directory\n" on the stderr while errno is assigned a value of 2.

  • EPERM 1: Not super-user (Not owner)
  • ENOENT 2: No such file or directory
  • ESRCH 3: No such process
  • EINTR 4: Interrupted system call
  • EIO 5: I/O error
  • ENXIO 6: No such device or address
  • E2BIG 7: Arg list too long
  • ENOEXEC 8: Exec format error
  • EBADF 9: Bad file number
  • ECHILD 10: No children
  • EAGAIN 11: Resource temporarily unavailable
  • ENOMEM 12: Not enough core
  • EACCES 13: Permission denied
  • EFAULT 14: Bad address
  • ENOTBLK 15: Block device required
  • EBUSY 16: Mount device busy
  • EEXIST 17: File exists
  • EXDEV 18: Cross-device link
  • ENODEV 19: No such device
  • ENOTDIR 20: Not a directory
  • EISDIR 21: Is a directory
  • EINVAL 22: Invalid argument
  • ENFILE 23: Too many open files in system
  • EMFILE 24: Too many open files
  • ENOTTY 25: Not a character device
  • ETXTBSY 26: Text file busy
  • EFBIG 27: File too large
  • ENOSPC 28: No space left on device
  • ESPIPE 29: Illegal seek
  • EROFS 30: Read only file system
  • EMLINK 31: Too many links
  • EPIPE 32: Broken pipe
  • EDOM 33: Math arg out of domain of func
  • ERANGE 34: Math result not representable
  • ENOMSG 35: No message of desired type
  • EIDRM 36: Identifier removed
  • ECHRNG 37: Channel number out of range
  • EL2NSYNC 38: Level 2 not synchronized
  • EL3HLT 39: Level 3 halted
  • EL3RST 40: Level 3 reset
  • ELNRNG 41: Link number out of range
  • EUNATCH 42: Protocol driver not attached
  • ENOCSI 43: No CSI structure available
  • EL2HLT 44: Level 2 halted
  • EDEADLK 45: Deadlock condition
  • ENOLCK 46: No record locks available
  • EBADE 50: Invalid exchange
  • EBADR 51: Invalid request descriptor
  • EXFULL 52: Exchange full
  • ENOANO 53: No anode
  • EBADRQC 54: Invalid request code
  • EBADSLT 55: Invalid slot
  • EDEADLOCK 56: File locking deadlock error
  • EBFONT 57: Bad font file fmt
  • ENOSTR 60: Device not a stream
  • ENODATA 61: No data (for no delay io)
  • ETIME 62: Timer expired
  • ENOSR 63: Out of streams resources
  • ENONET 64: Machine is not on the network
  • ENOPKG 65: Package not installed
  • EREMOTE 66: The object is remote
  • ENOLINK 67: The link has been severed
  • EADV 68: Advertise error
  • ESRMNT 69: Srmount error
  • ECOMM 70: Communication error on send
  • EPROTO 71: Protocol error
  • EMULTIHOP 74: Multihop attempted
  • ELBIN 75: Inode is remote (not really error)
  • EDOTDOT 76: Cross mount point (not really error)
  • EBADMSG 77: Trying to read unreadable message
  • EFTYPE 79: Inappropriate file type or format
  • ENOTUNIQ 80: Given log. name not unique
  • EBADFD 81: f.d. invalid for this operation
  • EREMCHG 82: Remote address changed
  • ELIBACC 83: Can't access a needed shared lib
  • ELIBBAD 84: Accessing a corrupted shared lib
  • ELIBSCN 85: .lib section in a.out corrupted
  • ELIBMAX 86: Attempting to link in too many libs
  • ELIBEXEC 87: Attempting to exec a shared library
  • ENOSYS 88: Function not implemented
  • ENMFILE 89 : No more files
  • ENOTEMPTY 90: Directory not empty
  • ENAMETOOLONG 91: File or path name too long
  • ELOOP 92: Too many symbolic links
  • EOPNOTSUPP 95: Operation not supported on transport endpoint
  • EPFNOSUPPORT 96 : Protocol family not supported
  • ECONNRESET 104 : Connection reset by peer
  • ENOBUFS 105: No buffer space available
  • EAFNOSUPPORT 106 : Address family not supported by protocol family
  • EPROTOTYPE 107: Protocol wrong type for socket
  • ENOTSOCK 108: Socket operation on non-socket
  • ENOPROTOOPT 109: Protocol not available
  • ESHUTDOWN 110: Can't send after socket shutdown
  • ECONNREFUSED 111: Connection refused
  • EADDRINUSE 112: Address already in use
  • ECONNABORTED 113: Connection aborted
  • ENETUNREACH 114: Network is unreachable
  • ENETDOWN 115: Network interface is not configured
  • ETIMEDOUT 116: Connection timed out
  • EHOSTDOWN 117: Host is down
  • EHOSTUNREACH 118: Host is unreachable
  • EINPROGRESS 119: Connection already in progress
  • EALREADY 120: Socket already connected
  • EDESTADDRREQ 121: Destination address required
  • EMSGSIZE 122: Message too long
  • EPROTONOSUPPORT 123: Unknown protocol
  • ESOCKTNOSUPPORT 124: Socket type not supported
  • EADDRNOTAVAIL 125: Address not available
  • ENETRESET 126
  • EISCONN 127: Socket is already connected
  • ENOTCONN 128: Socket is not connected
  • ETOOMANYREFS 129
  • EPROCLIM 130
  • EUSERS 131
  • EDQUOT 132
  • ESTALE 133
  • ENOTSUP 134: Not supported
  • ENOMEDIUM 135 : No medium (in tape drive)
  • ENOSHARE 136 : No such host or network path
  • ECASECLASH 137 : Filename exists with different case
  • EILSEQ 138
  • EOVERFLOW 139: Value too large for defined data type
  • ECANCELED 140: Operation canceled
  • ENOTRECOVERABLE 141: State not recoverable
  • EOWNERDEAD 142: Previous owner died
  • ESTRPIPE 143: Streams pipe error
  • EWOULDBLOCK EAGAIN: Operation would block