gai_strerror : getaddrinfo error handling

Like gethostbyname, getaddrinfo also has an error analysis function. This document shows you how to specify the getaddrinfo error using gai_strerror.

Simple sample code

The following example calls getaddrinfo using an invalid argument.


#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netdb.h>

int
main()
{
 int err;

 if ((err = getaddrinfo(NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL)) != 0) {
   printf("error %d : %s\n", err, gai_strerror(err));
   return 1;
 }

 return 0;
}

Since the argument given to getaddrinfo is invalid, the variable "err" will not be 0 in this example. After getaddrinfo fails, gai_strerror used in printf will show the error desciption.

In my environment, this example showed the following error string.


error -2 : Name or service not known

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