pmiErrStr(3)

pmiErrStr3

Convert a logimport error code into a string

C synopsis

#include <pcp/pmapi.h>
#include <pcp/import.h>

const char *pmiErrStr(int code);
char *pmiErrStr_r(int code, char buf, int buflen);

cc ... -lpcp_import -lpcp

Perl SYNOPSIS

use PCP::LogImport;

pmiErrStr($code);

Overview

As part of the Performance Co-Pilot Log Import API (see LOGIMPORT(3)), pmiErrStr translates error codes returned from the other routines in the Log Import library into printable error messages.

code would normally have a negative value. As a special case, if code is -1 then the error code returned from the last routine called in the LOGIMPORT library for this context will be used.

The pmiErrStr_r function does the same, but stores the result in a user-supplied buffer buf of length buflen, which should have room for at least PMI_MAXERRMSGLEN bytes.

The set of possible error codes and messages is all those defined by pmErrStr(3) and PCPIntro(3), plus the additional ones defined in <pcp/import.h> with error code names of the form PMI_ERR_....

Releases

6 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 8–10
  2. 11
  3. 12
  4. 13
  5. Arch

From pcp 7.2.2-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.