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diff --git a/doc/man3/ERR_put_error.pod b/doc/man3/ERR_put_error.pod new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9d2405e3d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/man3/ERR_put_error.pod @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +=pod + +=head1 NAME + +ERR_put_error, ERR_add_error_data - record an error + +=head1 SYNOPSIS + + #include <openssl/err.h> + + void ERR_put_error(int lib, int func, int reason, const char *file, + int line); + + void ERR_add_error_data(int num, ...); + void ERR_add_error_data(int num, va_list arg); + +=head1 DESCRIPTION + +ERR_put_error() adds an error code to the thread's error queue. It +signals that the error of reason code B<reason> occurred in function +B<func> of library B<lib>, in line number B<line> of B<file>. +This function is usually called by a macro. + +ERR_add_error_data() associates the concatenation of its B<num> string +arguments with the error code added last. +ERR_add_error_vdata() is similar except the argument is a B<va_list>. + +L<ERR_load_strings(3)> can be used to register +error strings so that the application can a generate human-readable +error messages for the error code. + +=head2 Reporting errors + +Each sub-library has a specific macro XXXerr() that is used to report +errors. Its first argument is a function code B<XXX_F_...>, the second +argument is a reason code B<XXX_R_...>. Function codes are derived +from the function names; reason codes consist of textual error +descriptions. For example, the function ssl3_read_bytes() reports a +"handshake failure" as follows: + + SSLerr(SSL_F_SSL3_READ_BYTES, SSL_R_SSL_HANDSHAKE_FAILURE); + +Function and reason codes should consist of upper case characters, +numbers and underscores only. The error file generation script translates +function codes into function names by looking in the header files +for an appropriate function name, if none is found it just uses +the capitalized form such as "SSL3_READ_BYTES" in the above example. + +The trailing section of a reason code (after the "_R_") is translated +into lower case and underscores changed to spaces. + +Although a library will normally report errors using its own specific +XXXerr macro, another library's macro can be used. This is normally +only done when a library wants to include ASN1 code which must use +the ASN1err() macro. + + +=head1 RETURN VALUES + +ERR_put_error() and ERR_add_error_data() return +no values. + +=head1 SEE ALSO + +L<err(3)>, L<ERR_load_strings(3)> + +=head1 COPYRIGHT + +Copyright 2000-2016 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. + +Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License"). You may not use +this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy +in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at +L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>. + +=cut |