HP-UX Reference (11i v2 07/12) - 3 Library Functions A-M (vol 6)

catopen(3C) catopen(3C)

[ENAMETOOLONG] The length of the speciﬁed path name exceeds

PATH_MAX bytes, or the

length of a component of the path name exceeds

NAME_MAX bytes while

_POSIX_NO_TRUNC

is in effect.

[ENFILE] The system ﬁle table is full.

[ENOENT] The named catalog does not exist or the path is null.

[ENOTDIR] A component of the path preﬁx is not a directory.

catgets() can be used to provide default messages when called following a failed

catopen() (see

catgets(3C)).

catgets() returns its def_str parameter if it is passed an invalid catalog descriptor.

catclose() fails if the following is true:

[EBADF] catd is not a valid open message catalog descriptor.

WARNINGS

When using NLSPATH, catopen() does not provide a default value for

LANG.

AUTHOR

catopen() and catclose() were developed by HP.

FILES

/usr/include/nl_types.h

/usr/lib/nls/msg

Message catalog default path for core HP-UX products only.