Reference Guide

ZCOM C I/F Library Routines
ZCOMSTATUS (3X)
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ZCOMSTATUS (3X)
NAME zcomstatus – Return a formatted ZCOM status or error message
SYNOPSIS
#include <zcom/zcomsys.h>
#include <zcom/zcomcall.h> /* if compiled with ANSI C (recommended) */
char *zcomstatus (req, stat)
int32 req;
int32 stat;
DESCRIPTION Routine zcomstatus returns a ZCOM status message string
corresponding to a specific status code. The return character string has a
length of 31 bytes maximum, plus a terminating zero. See Multiprotocol
ACC Programmers Reference Guide under ‘ZCOM Status Message
Routine’ in Appendix B, ZCOM Status Codes.
The libraries libzcom_c.a and libpthread.a must be linked into the calling
program by giving the options “-lzcom_c -lpthread” to cc(1) or ld(1).
Threads
Considerations
This routine may be called from a multi-threaded application using the
POSIX (1003.1c) kernel threads API package. This routine has the
following characteristics when called by a multi-threaded application:
not a cancellation point Thread cancellation will not occur when a
thread is calling this routine.
async-cancel unsafe The calling thread’s cancelability type must
be PTHREAD_CANCEL_DEFERRED if
cancellation is enabled.
async-signal unsafe It cannot be called from a signal handler.
fork unsafe It cannot be called by a child process after
fork(2) but before exec(2).