Ever wondered about all the possible UNIX error messages?
I wanted to see what all the possible errors are, so I wrote a little program which iterates through all possible values of errno to see what happens.
Here goes:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#define MAX_ERR 256
#define INIT_BUFF 4
int main(int argc, char **argv){
char str[INIT_BUFF];
for (errno=0;errno<MAX_ERR;errno++) {
sprintf(str, "%d", errno);
perror(str);
}
return 0;
}Here’s my system version:
Linux wrekkd 5.4.0-47-generic #51-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 4 19:50:52 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
And here’s the result:
0: Success
23: Too many open files in system
24: Too many open files
25: Inappropriate ioctl for device
26: Text file busy
27: File too large
28: No space left on device
29: Illegal seek
30: Read-only file system
31: Too many links
32: Broken pipe
33: Numerical argument out of domain
34: Numerical result out of range
35: Resource deadlock avoided
36: File name too long
37: No locks available
38: Function not implemented
39: Directory not empty
40: Too many levels of symbolic links
41: Unknown error 41
42: No message of desired type
43: Identifier removed
44: Channel number out of range
45: Level 2 not synchronized
46: Level 3 halted
47: Level 3 reset
48: Link number out of range
49: Protocol driver not attached
50: No CSI structure available
51: Level 2 halted
52: Invalid exchange
53: Invalid request descriptor
54: Exchange full
55: No anode
56: Invalid request code
57: Invalid slot
58: Unknown error 58
59: Bad font file format
60: Device not a stream
61: No data available
62: Timer expired
63: Out of streams resources
64: Machine is not on the network
65: Package not installed
66: Object is remote
67: Link has been severed
68: Advertise error
69: Srmount error
70: Communication error on send
71: Protocol error
72: Multihop attempted
73: RFS specific error
74: Bad message
75: Value too large for defined data type
76: Name not unique on network
77: File descriptor in bad state
78: Remote address changed
79: Can not access a needed shared library
80: Accessing a corrupted shared library
81: .lib section in a.out corrupted
82: Attempting to link in too many shared libraries
83: Cannot exec a shared library directly
84: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
85: Interrupted system call should be restarted
86: Streams pipe error
87: Too many users
88: Socket operation on non-socket
89: Destination address required
90: Message too long
91: Protocol wrong type for socket
92: Protocol not available
93: Protocol not supported
94: Socket type not supported
95: Operation not supported
96: Protocol family not supported
97: Address family not supported by protocol
98: Address already in use
99: Cannot assign requested address
100: Network is down
101: Network is unreachable
102: Network dropped connection on reset
103: Software caused connection abort
104: Connection reset by peer
105: No buffer space available
106: Transport endpoint is already connected
107: Transport endpoint is not connected
108: Cannot send after transport endpoint shutdown
109: Too many references: cannot splice
110: Connection timed out
111: Connection refused
112: Host is down
113: No route to host
114: Operation already in progress
115: Operation now in progress
116: Stale file handle
117: Structure needs cleaning
118: Not a XENIX named type file
119: No XENIX semaphores available
120: Is a named type file
121: Remote I/O error
122: Disk quota exceeded
123: No medium found
124: Wrong medium type
125: Operation canceled
126: Required key not available
127: Key has expired
128: Key has been revoked
129: Key was rejected by service
130: Owner died
131: State not recoverable
132: Operation not possible due to RF-kill
133: Memory page has hardware error
134: Unknown error 134
[... Unknown error repeated ...]
255: Unknown error 255
Whatever happens, I just hope you don’t get error 130 anytime soon.