NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

PCAP_GETERR(3PCAP)                                        PCAP_GETERR(3PCAP)

NAME         top

       pcap_geterr, pcap_perror - get or print libpcap error message text

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <pcap/pcap.h>
       char *pcap_geterr(pcap_t *p);
       void pcap_perror(pcap_t *p, const char *prefix);

DESCRIPTION         top

       pcap_geterr() returns the error text pertaining to the last pcap
       library error.  NOTE: the pointer it returns will no longer point to
       a valid error message string after the pcap_t passed to it is closed;
       you must use or copy the string before closing the pcap_t.
       pcap_perror() prints the text of the last pcap library error on
       stderr, prefixed by prefix.

SEE ALSO         top

       pcap(3PCAP)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the libpcap (packet capture library) project.
       Information about the project can be found at 
       ⟨http://www.tcpdump.org/⟩.  If you have a bug report for this manual
       page, see ⟨http://www.tcpdump.org/#patches⟩.  This page was obtained
       from the project's upstream Git repository 
       ⟨https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap.git⟩ on 2017-07-05.  If
       you discover any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page,
       or you believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the
       page, or you have corrections or improvements to the information in
       this COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a
       mail to man-pages@man7.org
                               3 January 2014             PCAP_GETERR(3PCAP)