Error numbers

Each of the macros defined in expands to integer constant expressions with type int, each with a positive value, matching most of the POSIX error codes. The following constants are defined (the implementation may define more, as long as they begin with ‘E’ followed by digits or uppercase letters).

# Example

#include <cerrno>
#include <cstring>
#include <iomanip>
#include <iostream>
 
#define SHOW(x) std::cout << std::setw(15) << #x << ": " << std::strerror(x) << '\n'
 
int main()
{
    std::cout << "Known error codes/messages:\n\n";
 
    SHOW( E2BIG );
    SHOW( EACCES );
    SHOW( EADDRINUSE );
    SHOW( EADDRNOTAVAIL );
    SHOW( EAFNOSUPPORT );
    SHOW( EAGAIN );
    SHOW( EALREADY );
    SHOW( EBADF );
    SHOW( EBADMSG );
    SHOW( EBUSY );
    SHOW( ECANCELED );
    SHOW( ECHILD );
    SHOW( ECONNABORTED );
    SHOW( ECONNREFUSED );
    SHOW( ECONNRESET );
    SHOW( EDEADLK );
    SHOW( EDESTADDRREQ );
    SHOW( EDOM );
    SHOW( EEXIST );
    SHOW( EFAULT );
    SHOW( EFBIG );
    SHOW( EHOSTUNREACH );
    SHOW( EIDRM );
    SHOW( EILSEQ );
    SHOW( EINPROGRESS );
    SHOW( EINTR );
    SHOW( EINVAL );
    SHOW( EIO );
    SHOW( EISCONN );
    SHOW( EISDIR );
    SHOW( ELOOP );
    SHOW( EMFILE );
    SHOW( EMLINK );
    SHOW( EMSGSIZE );
    SHOW( ENAMETOOLONG );
    SHOW( ENETDOWN );
    SHOW( ENETRESET );
    SHOW( ENETUNREACH );
    SHOW( ENFILE );
    SHOW( ENOBUFS );
    SHOW( ENODATA );
    SHOW( ENODEV );
    SHOW( ENOENT );
    SHOW( ENOEXEC );
    SHOW( ENOLCK );
    SHOW( ENOLINK );
    SHOW( ENOMEM );
    SHOW( ENOMSG );
    SHOW( ENOPROTOOPT );
    SHOW( ENOSPC );
    SHOW( ENOSR );
    SHOW( ENOSTR );
    SHOW( ENOSYS );
    SHOW( ENOTCONN );
    SHOW( ENOTDIR );
    SHOW( ENOTEMPTY );
    SHOW( ENOTRECOVERABLE );
    SHOW( ENOTSOCK );
    SHOW( ENOTSUP );
    SHOW( ENOTTY );
    SHOW( ENXIO );
    SHOW( EOPNOTSUPP );
    SHOW( EOVERFLOW );
    SHOW( EOWNERDEAD );
    SHOW( EPERM );
    SHOW( EPIPE );
    SHOW( EPROTO );
    SHOW( EPROTONOSUPPORT );
    SHOW( EPROTOTYPE );
    SHOW( ERANGE );
    SHOW( EROFS );
    SHOW( ESPIPE );
    SHOW( ESRCH );
    SHOW( ETIME );
    SHOW( ETIMEDOUT );
    SHOW( ETXTBSY );
    SHOW( EWOULDBLOCK );
    SHOW( EXDEV );
}

# See also