It means:
File or Directory not found.
Instead of running perror on any error code you get, you can retrieve a complete listing of errno values on your system with the following one-liner:
cpp -dM /usr/include/errno.h | grep 'define E' | sort -n -k 3
Here is the documentation. That should tell you what it means and what to do with them. You should avoid using the numeric value and use the constants listed there as well, as the number may change between different systems.
Call
perror("execl");
in case of error.
Sample:
if(read(fd, buf, 1)==-1) {
perror("read");
}
The manpages of errno(3) and perror(3) are interesting, too...
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int i, char *c[]) {
if (i != 2)
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: perror errno\n");
else {
errno = atoi(c[1]);
perror("");
}
exit(0);
}
Works on Solaris.
cc perror.c -o perror << use this line to compile it
I use the following script:
#!/usr/bin/python
import errno
import os
import sys
toname = dict((str(getattr(errno, x)), x)
for x in dir(errno)
if x.startswith("E"))
tocode = dict((x, getattr(errno, x))
for x in dir(errno)
if x.startswith("E"))
for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
if arg in tocode:
print arg, tocode[arg], os.strerror(tocode[arg])
elif arg in toname:
print toname[arg], arg, os.strerror(int(arg))
else:
print "Unknown:", arg
Call
perror("execl");
in case of error.
Sample:
if(read(fd, buf, 1)==-1) {
perror("read");
}
The manpages of errno(3) and perror(3) are interesting, too...
When you use strace (on Linux) to run your binary, it will output the returns from system calls and what the error number means. This may sometimes be useful to you.
Error code 2 means "File/Directory not found". In general, you could use the perror function to print a human readable string.
There's a few useful functions for dealing with errnos. (Just to make it clear, these are built-in to libc -- I'm just providing sample implementations because some people find reading code clearer than reading English.)
#include <string.h>
char *strerror(int errnum);
/* you can think of it as being implemented like this: */
static char strerror_buf[1024];
const char *sys_errlist[] = {
[EPERM] = "Operation not permitted",
[ENOENT] = "No such file or directory",
[ESRCH] = "No such process",
[EINTR] = "Interrupted system call",
[EIO] = "I/O error",
[ENXIO] = "No such device or address",
[E2BIG] = "Argument list too long",
/* etc. */
};
int sys_nerr = sizeof(sys_errlist) / sizeof(char *);
char *strerror(int errnum) {
if (0 <= errnum && errnum < sys_nerr && sys_errlist[errnum])
strcpy(strerror_buf, sys_errlist[errnum]);
else
sprintf(strerror_buf, "Unknown error %d", errnum);
return strerror_buf;
}
strerror returns a string describing the error number you've passed to it. Caution, this is not thread- or interrupt-safe; it is free to rewrite the string and return the same pointer on the next invocation. Use strerror_r if you need to worry about that.
#include <stdio.h>
void perror(const char *s);
/* you can think of it as being implemented like this: */
void perror(const char *s) {
fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s\n", s, strerror(errno));
}
perror prints out the message you give it, plus a string describing the current errno, to standard error.
When you use strace (on Linux) to run your binary, it will output the returns from system calls and what the error number means. This may sometimes be useful to you.
Here is the documentation. That should tell you what it means and what to do with them. You should avoid using the numeric value and use the constants listed there as well, as the number may change between different systems.
Type sudo apt-get install moreutils into your shell and then, once that has installed, type errno 2. You can also use errno -l for all error numbers, or see only the file ones by piping it to grep, like this: errno -l | grep file.
On Linux there is also a very neat tool that can tell right away what each error code means. On Ubuntu: apt-get install errno.
Then if for example you want to get the description of error type 2, just type errno 2 in the terminal.
With errno -l you get a list with all errors and their descriptions. Much easier that other methods mentioned by previous posters.
I use the following script:
#!/usr/bin/python
import errno
import os
import sys
toname = dict((str(getattr(errno, x)), x)
for x in dir(errno)
if x.startswith("E"))
tocode = dict((x, getattr(errno, x))
for x in dir(errno)
if x.startswith("E"))
for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
if arg in tocode:
print arg, tocode[arg], os.strerror(tocode[arg])
elif arg in toname:
print toname[arg], arg, os.strerror(int(arg))
else:
print "Unknown:", arg
When you use strace (on Linux) to run your binary, it will output the returns from system calls and what the error number means. This may sometimes be useful to you.
Instead of running perror on any error code you get, you can retrieve a complete listing of errno values on your system with the following one-liner:
cpp -dM /usr/include/errno.h | grep 'define E' | sort -n -k 3
Here is the documentation. That should tell you what it means and what to do with them. You should avoid using the numeric value and use the constants listed there as well, as the number may change between different systems.
It means:
File or Directory not found.
Type sudo apt-get install moreutils into your shell and then, once that has installed, type errno 2. You can also use errno -l for all error numbers, or see only the file ones by piping it to grep, like this: errno -l | grep file.
I have the following function in my .bashrc file - it looks up the errno value from the header files (can be either /usr/include/errno.h, /usr/include/linux/errno.h, etc., etc.)
It works if header files are installed on the machine;-)
Usually the header file have an error + next comes the explanation in the comment; something of the following:
./asm-generic/errno-base.h:#define EAGAIN 11 /* Try again */
function errno()
{
local arg=$1
if [[ "x$arg" == "x-h" ]]; then
cat <<EOF
Usage: errno <num>
Prints text that describes errno error number
EOF
else
pushd /usr/include
find . -name "errno*.h" | xargs grep "[[:space:]]${arg}[[:space:]]"
popd
fi
}
Error code 2 means "File/Directory not found". In general, you could use the perror function to print a human readable string.
Here is the documentation. That should tell you what it means and what to do with them. You should avoid using the numeric value and use the constants listed there as well, as the number may change between different systems.
Here is the output from errno -l reformatted for readability:
1 EPERM Operation not permitted
2 ENOENT No such file or directory
3 ESRCH No such process
4 EINTR Interrupted system call
5 EIO Input/output error
6 ENXIO No such device or address
7 E2BIG Argument list too long
8 ENOEXEC Exec format error
9 EBADF Bad file descriptor
10 ECHILD No child processes
11 EAGAIN Resource temporarily unavailable
11 EWOULDBLOCK Resource temporarily unavailable
12 ENOMEM Cannot allocate memory
13 EACCES Permission denied
14 EFAULT Bad address
15 ENOTBLK Block device required
16 EBUSY Device or resource busy
17 EEXIST File exists
18 EXDEV Invalid cross-device link
19 ENODEV No such device
20 ENOTDIR Not a directory
21 EISDIR Is a directory
22 EINVAL Invalid argument
23 ENFILE Too many open files in system
24 EMFILE Too many open files
25 ENOTTY Inappropriate ioctl for device
26 ETXTBSY Text file busy
27 EFBIG File too large
28 ENOSPC No space left on device
29 ESPIPE Illegal seek
30 EROFS Read-only file system
31 EMLINK Too many links
32 EPIPE Broken pipe
33 EDOM Numerical argument out of domain
34 ERANGE Numerical result out of range
35 EDEADLK Resource deadlock avoided
35 EDEADLOCK Resource deadlock avoided
36 ENAMETOOLONG File name too long
37 ENOLCK No locks available
38 ENOSYS Function not implemented
39 ENOTEMPTY Directory not empty
40 ELOOP Too many levels of symbolic links
42 ENOMSG No message of desired type
43 EIDRM Identifier removed
44 ECHRNG Channel number out of range
45 EL2NSYNC Level 2 not synchronized
46 EL3HLT Level 3 halted
47 EL3RST Level 3 reset
48 ELNRNG Link number out of range
49 EUNATCH Protocol driver not attached
50 ENOCSI No CSI structure available
51 EL2HLT Level 2 halted
52 EBADE Invalid exchange
53 EBADR Invalid request descriptor
54 EXFULL Exchange full
55 ENOANO No anode
56 EBADRQC Invalid request code
57 EBADSLT Invalid slot
59 EBFONT Bad font file format
60 ENOSTR Device not a stream
61 ENODATA No data available
62 ETIME Timer expired
63 ENOSR Out of streams resources
64 ENONET Machine is not on the network
65 ENOPKG Package not installed
66 EREMOTE Object is remote
67 ENOLINK Link has been severed
68 EADV Advertise error
69 ESRMNT Srmount error
70 ECOMM Communication error on send
71 EPROTO Protocol error
72 EMULTIHOP Multihop attempted
73 EDOTDOT RFS specific error
74 EBADMSG Bad message
75 EOVERFLOW Value too large for defined data type
76 ENOTUNIQ Name not unique on network
77 EBADFD File descriptor in bad state
78 EREMCHG Remote address changed
79 ELIBACC Can not access a needed shared library
80 ELIBBAD Accessing a corrupted shared library
81 ELIBSCN .lib section in a.out corrupted
82 ELIBMAX Attempting to link in too many shared libraries
83 ELIBEXEC Cannot exec a shared library directly
84 EILSEQ Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
85 ERESTART Interrupted system call should be restarted
86 ESTRPIPE Streams pipe error
87 EUSERS Too many users
88 ENOTSOCK Socket operation on non-socket
89 EDESTADDRREQ Destination address required
90 EMSGSIZE Message too long
91 EPROTOTYPE Protocol wrong type for socket
92 ENOPROTOOPT Protocol not available
93 EPROTONOSUPPORT Protocol not supported
94 ESOCKTNOSUPPORT Socket type not supported
95 ENOTSUP Operation not supported
95 EOPNOTSUPP Operation not supported
96 EPFNOSUPPORT Protocol family not supported
97 EAFNOSUPPORT Address family not supported by protocol
98 EADDRINUSE Address already in use
99 EADDRNOTAVAIL Cannot assign requested address
100 ENETDOWN Network is down
101 ENETUNREACH Network is unreachable
102 ENETRESET Network dropped connection on reset
103 ECONNABORTED Software caused connection abort
104 ECONNRESET Connection reset by peer
105 ENOBUFS No buffer space available
106 EISCONN Transport endpoint is already connected
107 ENOTCONN Transport endpoint is not connected
108 ESHUTDOWN Cannot send after transport endpoint shutdown
109 ETOOMANYREFS Too many references: cannot splice
110 ETIMEDOUT Connection timed out
111 ECONNREFUSED Connection refused
112 EHOSTDOWN Host is down
113 EHOSTUNREACH No route to host
114 EALREADY Operation already in progress
115 EINPROGRESS Operation now in progress
116 ESTALE Stale file handle
117 EUCLEAN Structure needs cleaning
118 ENOTNAM Not a XENIX named type file
119 ENAVAIL No XENIX semaphores available
120 EISNAM Is a named type file
121 EREMOTEIO Remote I/O error
122 EDQUOT Disk quota exceeded
123 ENOMEDIUM No medium found
124 EMEDIUMTYPE Wrong medium type
125 ECANCELED Operation canceled
126 ENOKEY Required key not available
127 EKEYEXPIRED Key has expired
128 EKEYREVOKED Key has been revoked
129 EKEYREJECTED Key was rejected by service
130 EOWNERDEAD Owner died
131 ENOTRECOVERABLE State not recoverable
132 ERFKILL Operation not possible due to RF-kill
133 EHWPOISON Memory page has hardware error
I used tabularise in Vim to align the columns:
:%Tab /^[^ ]*\zs /r1l1l1
:%Tab /^ *[^ ]* *[^ ]*\zs /l1
Instead of running perror on any error code you get, you can retrieve a complete listing of errno values on your system with the following one-liner:
cpp -dM /usr/include/errno.h | grep 'define E' | sort -n -k 3
Call
perror("execl");
in case of error.
Sample:
if(read(fd, buf, 1)==-1) {
perror("read");
}
The manpages of errno(3) and perror(3) are interesting, too...
I use the following script:
#!/usr/bin/python
import errno
import os
import sys
toname = dict((str(getattr(errno, x)), x)
for x in dir(errno)
if x.startswith("E"))
tocode = dict((x, getattr(errno, x))
for x in dir(errno)
if x.startswith("E"))
for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
if arg in tocode:
print arg, tocode[arg], os.strerror(tocode[arg])
elif arg in toname:
print toname[arg], arg, os.strerror(int(arg))
else:
print "Unknown:", arg
Instead of running perror on any error code you get, you can retrieve a complete listing of errno values on your system with the following one-liner:
cpp -dM /usr/include/errno.h | grep 'define E' | sort -n -k 3
When you use strace (on Linux) to run your binary, it will output the returns from system calls and what the error number means. This may sometimes be useful to you.
This is faster than looking up the code in errno.h, shorter than most solutions posted here and it does not require installation of third party tools:
perl -E 'say $!=shift' 2
yields
No such file or directory
There's a few useful functions for dealing with errnos. (Just to make it clear, these are built-in to libc -- I'm just providing sample implementations because some people find reading code clearer than reading English.)
#include <string.h>
char *strerror(int errnum);
/* you can think of it as being implemented like this: */
static char strerror_buf[1024];
const char *sys_errlist[] = {
[EPERM] = "Operation not permitted",
[ENOENT] = "No such file or directory",
[ESRCH] = "No such process",
[EINTR] = "Interrupted system call",
[EIO] = "I/O error",
[ENXIO] = "No such device or address",
[E2BIG] = "Argument list too long",
/* etc. */
};
int sys_nerr = sizeof(sys_errlist) / sizeof(char *);
char *strerror(int errnum) {
if (0 <= errnum && errnum < sys_nerr && sys_errlist[errnum])
strcpy(strerror_buf, sys_errlist[errnum]);
else
sprintf(strerror_buf, "Unknown error %d", errnum);
return strerror_buf;
}
strerror returns a string describing the error number you've passed to it. Caution, this is not thread- or interrupt-safe; it is free to rewrite the string and return the same pointer on the next invocation. Use strerror_r if you need to worry about that.
#include <stdio.h>
void perror(const char *s);
/* you can think of it as being implemented like this: */
void perror(const char *s) {
fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s\n", s, strerror(errno));
}
perror prints out the message you give it, plus a string describing the current errno, to standard error.
Error code 2 means "File/Directory not found". In general, you could use the perror function to print a human readable string.
On Linux there is also a very neat tool that can tell right away what each error code means. On Ubuntu: apt-get install errno.
Then if for example you want to get the description of error type 2, just type errno 2 in the terminal.
With errno -l you get a list with all errors and their descriptions. Much easier that other methods mentioned by previous posters.
I have the following function in my .bashrc file - it looks up the errno value from the header files (can be either /usr/include/errno.h, /usr/include/linux/errno.h, etc., etc.)
It works if header files are installed on the machine;-)
Usually the header file have an error + next comes the explanation in the comment; something of the following:
./asm-generic/errno-base.h:#define EAGAIN 11 /* Try again */
function errno()
{
local arg=$1
if [[ "x$arg" == "x-h" ]]; then
cat <<EOF
Usage: errno <num>
Prints text that describes errno error number
EOF
else
pushd /usr/include
find . -name "errno*.h" | xargs grep "[[:space:]]${arg}[[:space:]]"
popd
fi
}
Call
perror("execl");
in case of error.
Sample:
if(read(fd, buf, 1)==-1) {
perror("read");
}
The manpages of errno(3) and perror(3) are interesting, too...
It means:
File or Directory not found.
There's a few useful functions for dealing with errnos. (Just to make it clear, these are built-in to libc -- I'm just providing sample implementations because some people find reading code clearer than reading English.)
#include <string.h>
char *strerror(int errnum);
/* you can think of it as being implemented like this: */
static char strerror_buf[1024];
const char *sys_errlist[] = {
[EPERM] = "Operation not permitted",
[ENOENT] = "No such file or directory",
[ESRCH] = "No such process",
[EINTR] = "Interrupted system call",
[EIO] = "I/O error",
[ENXIO] = "No such device or address",
[E2BIG] = "Argument list too long",
/* etc. */
};
int sys_nerr = sizeof(sys_errlist) / sizeof(char *);
char *strerror(int errnum) {
if (0 <= errnum && errnum < sys_nerr && sys_errlist[errnum])
strcpy(strerror_buf, sys_errlist[errnum]);
else
sprintf(strerror_buf, "Unknown error %d", errnum);
return strerror_buf;
}
strerror returns a string describing the error number you've passed to it. Caution, this is not thread- or interrupt-safe; it is free to rewrite the string and return the same pointer on the next invocation. Use strerror_r if you need to worry about that.
#include <stdio.h>
void perror(const char *s);
/* you can think of it as being implemented like this: */
void perror(const char *s) {
fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s\n", s, strerror(errno));
}
perror prints out the message you give it, plus a string describing the current errno, to standard error.
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int i, char *c[]) {
if (i != 2)
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: perror errno\n");
else {
errno = atoi(c[1]);
perror("");
}
exit(0);
}
Works on Solaris.
cc perror.c -o perror << use this line to compile it
This is faster than looking up the code in errno.h, shorter than most solutions posted here and it does not require installation of third party tools:
perl -E 'say $!=shift' 2
yields
No such file or directory
I use the following script:
#!/usr/bin/python
import errno
import os
import sys
toname = dict((str(getattr(errno, x)), x)
for x in dir(errno)
if x.startswith("E"))
tocode = dict((x, getattr(errno, x))
for x in dir(errno)
if x.startswith("E"))
for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
if arg in tocode:
print arg, tocode[arg], os.strerror(tocode[arg])
elif arg in toname:
print toname[arg], arg, os.strerror(int(arg))
else:
print "Unknown:", arg
It means:
File or Directory not found.
Here is the output from errno -l reformatted for readability:
1 EPERM Operation not permitted
2 ENOENT No such file or directory
3 ESRCH No such process
4 EINTR Interrupted system call
5 EIO Input/output error
6 ENXIO No such device or address
7 E2BIG Argument list too long
8 ENOEXEC Exec format error
9 EBADF Bad file descriptor
10 ECHILD No child processes
11 EAGAIN Resource temporarily unavailable
11 EWOULDBLOCK Resource temporarily unavailable
12 ENOMEM Cannot allocate memory
13 EACCES Permission denied
14 EFAULT Bad address
15 ENOTBLK Block device required
16 EBUSY Device or resource busy
17 EEXIST File exists
18 EXDEV Invalid cross-device link
19 ENODEV No such device
20 ENOTDIR Not a directory
21 EISDIR Is a directory
22 EINVAL Invalid argument
23 ENFILE Too many open files in system
24 EMFILE Too many open files
25 ENOTTY Inappropriate ioctl for device
26 ETXTBSY Text file busy
27 EFBIG File too large
28 ENOSPC No space left on device
29 ESPIPE Illegal seek
30 EROFS Read-only file system
31 EMLINK Too many links
32 EPIPE Broken pipe
33 EDOM Numerical argument out of domain
34 ERANGE Numerical result out of range
35 EDEADLK Resource deadlock avoided
35 EDEADLOCK Resource deadlock avoided
36 ENAMETOOLONG File name too long
37 ENOLCK No locks available
38 ENOSYS Function not implemented
39 ENOTEMPTY Directory not empty
40 ELOOP Too many levels of symbolic links
42 ENOMSG No message of desired type
43 EIDRM Identifier removed
44 ECHRNG Channel number out of range
45 EL2NSYNC Level 2 not synchronized
46 EL3HLT Level 3 halted
47 EL3RST Level 3 reset
48 ELNRNG Link number out of range
49 EUNATCH Protocol driver not attached
50 ENOCSI No CSI structure available
51 EL2HLT Level 2 halted
52 EBADE Invalid exchange
53 EBADR Invalid request descriptor
54 EXFULL Exchange full
55 ENOANO No anode
56 EBADRQC Invalid request code
57 EBADSLT Invalid slot
59 EBFONT Bad font file format
60 ENOSTR Device not a stream
61 ENODATA No data available
62 ETIME Timer expired
63 ENOSR Out of streams resources
64 ENONET Machine is not on the network
65 ENOPKG Package not installed
66 EREMOTE Object is remote
67 ENOLINK Link has been severed
68 EADV Advertise error
69 ESRMNT Srmount error
70 ECOMM Communication error on send
71 EPROTO Protocol error
72 EMULTIHOP Multihop attempted
73 EDOTDOT RFS specific error
74 EBADMSG Bad message
75 EOVERFLOW Value too large for defined data type
76 ENOTUNIQ Name not unique on network
77 EBADFD File descriptor in bad state
78 EREMCHG Remote address changed
79 ELIBACC Can not access a needed shared library
80 ELIBBAD Accessing a corrupted shared library
81 ELIBSCN .lib section in a.out corrupted
82 ELIBMAX Attempting to link in too many shared libraries
83 ELIBEXEC Cannot exec a shared library directly
84 EILSEQ Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
85 ERESTART Interrupted system call should be restarted
86 ESTRPIPE Streams pipe error
87 EUSERS Too many users
88 ENOTSOCK Socket operation on non-socket
89 EDESTADDRREQ Destination address required
90 EMSGSIZE Message too long
91 EPROTOTYPE Protocol wrong type for socket
92 ENOPROTOOPT Protocol not available
93 EPROTONOSUPPORT Protocol not supported
94 ESOCKTNOSUPPORT Socket type not supported
95 ENOTSUP Operation not supported
95 EOPNOTSUPP Operation not supported
96 EPFNOSUPPORT Protocol family not supported
97 EAFNOSUPPORT Address family not supported by protocol
98 EADDRINUSE Address already in use
99 EADDRNOTAVAIL Cannot assign requested address
100 ENETDOWN Network is down
101 ENETUNREACH Network is unreachable
102 ENETRESET Network dropped connection on reset
103 ECONNABORTED Software caused connection abort
104 ECONNRESET Connection reset by peer
105 ENOBUFS No buffer space available
106 EISCONN Transport endpoint is already connected
107 ENOTCONN Transport endpoint is not connected
108 ESHUTDOWN Cannot send after transport endpoint shutdown
109 ETOOMANYREFS Too many references: cannot splice
110 ETIMEDOUT Connection timed out
111 ECONNREFUSED Connection refused
112 EHOSTDOWN Host is down
113 EHOSTUNREACH No route to host
114 EALREADY Operation already in progress
115 EINPROGRESS Operation now in progress
116 ESTALE Stale file handle
117 EUCLEAN Structure needs cleaning
118 ENOTNAM Not a XENIX named type file
119 ENAVAIL No XENIX semaphores available
120 EISNAM Is a named type file
121 EREMOTEIO Remote I/O error
122 EDQUOT Disk quota exceeded
123 ENOMEDIUM No medium found
124 EMEDIUMTYPE Wrong medium type
125 ECANCELED Operation canceled
126 ENOKEY Required key not available
127 EKEYEXPIRED Key has expired
128 EKEYREVOKED Key has been revoked
129 EKEYREJECTED Key was rejected by service
130 EOWNERDEAD Owner died
131 ENOTRECOVERABLE State not recoverable
132 ERFKILL Operation not possible due to RF-kill
133 EHWPOISON Memory page has hardware error
I used tabularise in Vim to align the columns:
:%Tab /^[^ ]*\zs /r1l1l1
:%Tab /^ *[^ ]* *[^ ]*\zs /l1
Source: Stackoverflow.com