gnutls_strerror(3)

gnutls_strerror3

Api function

Usage

#include <gnutls/gnutls.h>

const char * gnutls_strerror(int error);

Arguments

int error

is a GnuTLS error code, a negative error code

Overview

This function is similar to strerror. The difference is that it accepts an error number returned by a gnutls function; In case of an unknown error a descriptive string is sent instead of NULL.

Error codes are always a negative error code.

Returns

A string explaining the GnuTLS error message.

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.