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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2003-10-07 21:54:04 +0000
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+.\" $Id$
+.\"
+.\" Copyright 1998 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
+.\"
+.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
+.\" software and its documentation for any purpose and without
+.\" fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright
+.\" notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright
+.\" notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
+.\" documentation, and that the name of M.I.T. not be used in
+.\" advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the
+.\" software without specific, written prior permission.
+.\" M.I.T. makes no representations about the suitability of
+.\" this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is"
+.\" without express or implied warranty.
+.\"
+.TH ARES_STRERROR 3 "25 July 1998"
+.SH NAME
+ares_strerror \- Get the description of an ares library error code
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+.B #include <ares.h>
+.PP
+.B const char *ares_strerror(int \fIcode\fP, char **\fImemptr\fP)
+.fi
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The
+.B ares_strerror
+function gets the description of the ares library error code
+.IR code ,
+returning the result as a NUL-terminated C string. A pointer to
+allocated data necessary to compose the error description may be
+stored in the variable pointed to by
+.IR memptr .
+It is the caller's responsibility to invoke
+.BR ares_free_errmem (3)
+with the value of that variable when the error description is no
+longer needed.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR ares_free_errmem (3)
+.SH AUTHOR
+Greg Hudson, MIT Information Systems
+.br
+Copyright 1998 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.