minix/lib/libc/net/gai_strerror.3
Ben Gras 2fe8fb192f Full switch to clang/ELF. Drop ack. Simplify.
There is important information about booting non-ack images in
docs/UPDATING. ack/aout-format images can't be built any more, and
booting clang/ELF-format ones is a little different. Updating to the
new boot monitor is recommended.

Changes in this commit:

	. drop boot monitor -> allowing dropping ack support
	. facility to copy ELF boot files to /boot so that old boot monitor
	  can still boot fairly easily, see UPDATING
	. no more ack-format libraries -> single-case libraries
	. some cleanup of OBJECT_FMT, COMPILER_TYPE, etc cases
	. drop several ack toolchain commands, but not all support
	  commands (e.g. aal is gone but acksize is not yet).
	. a few libc files moved to netbsd libc dir
	. new /bin/date as minix date used code in libc/
	. test compile fix
	. harmonize includes
	. /usr/lib is no longer special: without ack, /usr/lib plays no
	  kind of special bootstrapping role any more and bootstrapping
	  is done exclusively through packages, so releases depend even
	  less on the state of the machine making them now.
	. rename nbsd_lib* to lib*
	. reduce mtree
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.\" $NetBSD: gai_strerror.3,v 1.5 2010/03/22 19:30:54 joerg Exp $
.\" $KAME: gai_strerror.3,v 1.1 2005/01/05 03:04:47 itojun Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: gai_strerror.3,v 1.4 2004/12/20 23:04:53 millert Exp $
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.Dd February 22, 2006
.Dt GAI_STRERROR 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm gai_strerror
.Nd get error message string from EAI_xxx error code
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/types.h
.In sys/socket.h
.In netdb.h
.Ft const char *
.Fn gai_strerror "int ecode"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn gai_strerror
function returns an error message string corresponding to the error code
returned by
.Xr getaddrinfo 3
or
.Xr getnameinfo 3 .
.Pp
The following error codes and their meaning are defined in
.In netdb.h :
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "EAI_ADDRFAMILYXX" -offset indent -compact
.It Dv EAI_ADDRFAMILY
address family for
.Fa hostname
not supported
.It Dv EAI_AGAIN
temporary failure in name resolution
.It Dv EAI_BADFLAGS
invalid value for
.Fa ai_flags
.It Dv EAI_BADHINTS
invalid value for
.Fa hints
.It Dv EAI_FAIL
non-recoverable failure in name resolution
.It Dv EAI_FAMILY
.Fa ai_family
not supported.
.It Dv EAI_MEMORY
memory allocation failure
.It Dv EAI_NODATA
no address associated with
.Fa hostname
.It Dv EAI_NONAME
.Fa hostname
or
.Fa servname
not provided, or not known
.It Dv EAI_OVERFLOW
argument buffer overflow
.It Dv EAI_PROTOCOL
resolved protocol is unknown
.It Dv EAI_SERVICE
.Fa servname
not supported for
.Fa ai_socktype
.It Dv EAI_SOCKTYPE
.Fa ai_socktype
not supported
.It Dv EAI_SYSTEM
system error returned in
.Va errno
.El
.Sh RETURN VALUES
.Fn gai_strerror
returns a pointer to the error message string corresponding to
.Fa ecode .
If
.Fa ecode
is out of range, an implementation-specific error message string is returned.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr getaddrinfo 3 ,
.Xr getnameinfo 3