curl_share_strerror(3)

💖 curl_share_strerror(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Library Functions Manual page for curl_share_strerror(3) ✨. This is the little helper that turns a CURLSHcode into a readable string, and we’re gonna get you fluent in it 💅.

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✨ NAME ✨

curl_share_strerror — return string describing error code

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <curl/curl.h>

const char *curl_share_strerror(CURLSHcode errornum);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so the curl_share_strerror(3) function returns a string describing the CURLSHcode error code you pass in the argument errornum. That’s the whole vibe: you hand it the error code, it hands you back the description, no cap 🫶.

🌈 PROTOCOLS 🌈

vibe check: this functionality affects all supported protocols 💫.

🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

int main(void)
{
  CURLSHcode sh;
  CURLSH *share = curl_share_init();
  sh = curl_share_setopt(share, CURLSHOPT_SHARE, CURL_LOCK_DATA_CONNECT);
  if(sh)
    printf("Error: %s\n", curl_share_strerror(sh));
}

⭐ AVAILABILITY ⭐

this icon was added in curl 7.12.0 👑.

🎀 RETURN VALUE 🎀

a pointer to a null-terminated string. literally that’s the return value, bestie 🌸.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• curl_easy_strerror(3)
• curl_multi_strerror(3)
• curl_url_strerror(3)
• libcurl-errors(3)

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xoxo, your local Unix bestie 🫶 — this page is from libcurl, dated 2026-10-12, and that’s the source/version + date sign-off, periodt 💅✨.