1err(3)                              OpenSSL                             err(3)
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NAME

6       err - error codes
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SYNOPSIS

9        #include <openssl/err.h>
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11        unsigned long ERR_get_error(void);
12        unsigned long ERR_peek_error(void);
13        unsigned long ERR_get_error_line(const char **file, int *line);
14        unsigned long ERR_peek_error_line(const char **file, int *line);
15        unsigned long ERR_get_error_line_data(const char **file, int *line,
16                const char **data, int *flags);
17        unsigned long ERR_peek_error_line_data(const char **file, int *line,
18                const char **data, int *flags);
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20        int ERR_GET_LIB(unsigned long e);
21        int ERR_GET_FUNC(unsigned long e);
22        int ERR_GET_REASON(unsigned long e);
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24        void ERR_clear_error(void);
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26        char *ERR_error_string(unsigned long e, char *buf);
27        const char *ERR_lib_error_string(unsigned long e);
28        const char *ERR_func_error_string(unsigned long e);
29        const char *ERR_reason_error_string(unsigned long e);
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31        void ERR_print_errors(BIO *bp);
32        void ERR_print_errors_fp(FILE *fp);
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34        void ERR_load_crypto_strings(void);
35        void ERR_free_strings(void);
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37        void ERR_remove_state(unsigned long pid);
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39        void ERR_put_error(int lib, int func, int reason, const char *file,
40                int line);
41        void ERR_add_error_data(int num, ...);
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43        void ERR_load_strings(int lib,ERR_STRING_DATA str[]);
44        unsigned long ERR_PACK(int lib, int func, int reason);
45        int ERR_get_next_error_library(void);
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DESCRIPTION

48       When a call to the OpenSSL library fails, this is usually signalled by
49       the return value, and an error code is stored in an error queue
50       associated with the current thread. The err library provides functions
51       to obtain these error codes and textual error messages.
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53       The ERR_get_error(3) manpage describes how to access error codes.
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55       Error codes contain information about where the error occurred, and
56       what went wrong. ERR_GET_LIB(3) describes how to extract this
57       information. A method to obtain human-readable error messages is
58       described in ERR_error_string(3).
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60       ERR_clear_error(3) can be used to clear the error queue.
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62       Note that ERR_remove_state(3) should be used to avoid memory leaks when
63       threads are terminated.
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ADDING NEW ERROR CODES TO OPENSSL

66       See ERR_put_error(3) if you want to record error codes in the OpenSSL
67       error system from within your application.
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69       The remainder of this section is of interest only if you want to add
70       new error codes to OpenSSL or add error codes from external libraries.
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72   Reporting errors
73       Each sub-library has a specific macro XXXerr() that is used to report
74       errors. Its first argument is a function code XXX_F_..., the second
75       argument is a reason code XXX_R_.... Function codes are derived from
76       the function names; reason codes consist of textual error descriptions.
77       For example, the function ssl23_read() reports a "handshake failure" as
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80        SSLerr(SSL_F_SSL23_READ, SSL_R_SSL_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE);
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82       Function and reason codes should consist of upper case characters,
83       numbers and underscores only. The error file generation script
84       translates function codes into function names by looking in the header
85       files for an appropriate function name, if none is found it just uses
86       the capitalized form such as "SSL23_READ" in the above example.
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88       The trailing section of a reason code (after the "_R_") is translated
89       into lower case and underscores changed to spaces.
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91       When you are using new function or reason codes, run make errors.  The
92       necessary #defines will then automatically be added to the sub-
93       library's header file.
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95       Although a library will normally report errors using its own specific
96       XXXerr macro, another library's macro can be used. This is normally
97       only done when a library wants to include ASN1 code which must use the
98       ASN1err() macro.
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100   Adding new libraries
101       When adding a new sub-library to OpenSSL, assign it a library number
102       ERR_LIB_XXX, define a macro XXXerr() (both in err.h), add its name to
103       ERR_str_libraries[] (in crypto/err/err.c), and add
104       "ERR_load_XXX_strings()" to the ERR_load_crypto_strings() function (in
105       crypto/err/err_all.c). Finally, add an entry
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107        L      XXX     xxx.h   xxx_err.c
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109       to crypto/err/openssl.ec, and add xxx_err.c to the Makefile.  Running
110       make errors will then generate a file xxx_err.c, and add all error
111       codes used in the library to xxx.h.
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113       Additionally the library include file must have a certain form.
114       Typically it will initially look like this:
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116        #ifndef HEADER_XXX_H
117        #define HEADER_XXX_H
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119        #ifdef __cplusplus
120        extern "C" {
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123        /* Include files */
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125        #include <openssl/bio.h>
126        #include <openssl/x509.h>
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128        /* Macros, structures and function prototypes */
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131        /* BEGIN ERROR CODES */
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133       The BEGIN ERROR CODES sequence is used by the error code generation
134       script as the point to place new error codes, any text after this point
135       will be overwritten when make errors is run.  The closing #endif etc
136       will be automatically added by the script.
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138       The generated C error code file xxx_err.c will load the header files
139       stdio.h, openssl/err.h and openssl/xxx.h so the header file must load
140       any additional header files containing any definitions it uses.
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USING ERROR CODES IN EXTERNAL LIBRARIES

143       It is also possible to use OpenSSL's error code scheme in external
144       libraries. The library needs to load its own codes and call the OpenSSL
145       error code insertion script mkerr.pl explicitly to add codes to the
146       header file and generate the C error code file. This will normally be
147       done if the external library needs to generate new ASN1 structures but
148       it can also be used to add more general purpose error code handling.
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150       TBA more details
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INTERNALS

153       The error queues are stored in a hash table with one ERR_STATE entry
154       for each pid. ERR_get_state() returns the current thread's ERR_STATE.
155       An ERR_STATE can hold up to ERR_NUM_ERRORS error codes. When more error
156       codes are added, the old ones are overwritten, on the assumption that
157       the most recent errors are most important.
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159       Error strings are also stored in hash table. The hash tables can be
160       obtained by calling ERR_get_err_state_table(void) and
161       ERR_get_string_table(void) respectively.
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SEE ALSO

164       CRYPTO_set_id_callback(3), CRYPTO_set_locking_callback(3),
165       ERR_get_error(3), ERR_GET_LIB(3), ERR_clear_error(3),
166       ERR_error_string(3), ERR_print_errors(3), ERR_load_crypto_strings(3),
167       ERR_remove_state(3), ERR_put_error(3), ERR_load_strings(3),
168       SSL_get_error(3)
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