gnutls_alert_send_appropriate(3)

gnutls_alert_send_appropriate3

Api function

Usage

#include <gnutls/gnutls.h>

int gnutls_alert_send_appropriate(gnutls_session_t session, int err);

Arguments

gnutls_session_t session

is a gnutls_session_t type.

int err

is an error code returned by another GnuTLS function

Overview

Sends an alert to the peer depending on the error code returned by a gnutls function. This function will call gnutls_error_to_alert() to determine the appropriate alert to send.

This function may also return GNUTLS_E_AGAIN, or GNUTLS_E_INTERRUPTED.

This function historically was always sending an alert to the peer, even if err was inappropriate to respond with an alert (e.g., GNUTLS_E_SUCCESS). Since 3.6.6 this function returns success without transmitting any data on error codes that should not result to an alert.

Returns

On success, GNUTLS_E_SUCCESS (0) is returned, otherwise an error code is returned.

Releases

10 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 9 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 8
  5. 9
  6. 10
  7. 11
  8. 12
  9. 13
  10. Arch

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
Home page: https://www.gnutls.org

From gnutls 3.8.13-3 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.