oath_strerror_name(3)

✨ oath_strerror_name(3) ✨ — the liboath bestie page 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the liboath manual page for oath_strerror_name(3). It’s literally an API function, and it’s here to turn error codes into their symbol names. No cap. 🫶

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💖 NAME 💖

oath_strerror_name — literally an API function. That’s the whole name section, iykyk. 💅

🌟 SYNOPSIS 🌟

#include <oath.h>

const char * oath_strerror_name(int err);

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• int err — a liboath error code, bestie. That’s the thing you’re asking about. 🍓

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the vibe is: this function converts a return code into a human-readable string that represents the error code symbol itself. Iconic behavior, honestly. For example, oath_strerror_name(OATH_OK) returns the string "OATH_OK". Slay. ✨

This string can be used to output a diagnostic message to the user. Very demure, very useful. 💖

And here’s the main-character detail: this function is one of few in the library that can be used without a successful call to oath_init(). Not me being lowkey convenient. 🙈

🔥 RETURN VALUE 🔥

It returns a pointer to a statically allocated string containing a string version of the error code err, or NULL if the error code is not known. Periodt. If it’s unknown, you get NULL, no cap. 💀

⭐ SINCE ⭐

1.8.0 — she’s been around, okay? 🌸

💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

Report bugs to <oath-toolkit-help@nongnu.org>. 💌

liboath home page: https://oath-toolkit.codeberg.page/

General help using GNU software: http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2009-2026 Simon Josefsson. Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. Legal tea, preserved exactly. 🫶

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xoxo, your Unix bestie 💅 — this page is from liboath, version 2.6.15. The footer didn’t give me a date, so I’m not inventing one, periodt. 🎀