posix_strerror
PHP function
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(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
Retrieve the system error message associated with the given errno
Description
posix_strerror(int $error_code): string
Returns the POSIX system error message associated with the given error_code. You may get the error_code parameter by calling posix_get_last_error().
Parameters
error_codeA POSIX error number, returned by
posix_get_last_error(). If set to 0, then the string "Success" is returned.
Return Values
Returns the error message, as a string.
Examples
posix_strerror() example
This example will attempt to kill a process which does not exist, then will print out the corresponding error message.
php
<?php
posix_kill(50,SIGKILL);
echo posix_strerror(posix_get_last_error())."\n";
?>The above example will output something similar to:
output
No such process