pcap_strerror — Npcap API

Name

pcap_strerror - convert an errno value to a string

Synopsis

#include <pcap/pcap.h>
const char *pcap_strerror(int error);

Description

This function returns an error message string corresponding to error. It uses either strerror(3) or its thread-safe variant if one is available, which currently is the case in every supported OS.

Backward compatibility

This function was not thread-safe in libpcap before 1.8.1 on Windows and in libpcap before 1.10.5 on all other OSes.

See also

pcap(3PCAP)

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