Unix Error Codes (errno)

Below is a list of Unix error numbers and codes. This list was generated with the simple Perl script below running Debian GNU/Linux. As you can see, the special Perl variable $! contains the C equivalent of errno as well as the string error message associated with the number. An equivalent C program to generate this list is also given below. 


#!/usr/bin/perl

for($i = 0; $i < 133; $i++) {
    $! = $i;
    print "Errno $i: $!\n";
}



#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>

extern int errno;

int main()
{
  int i;
  char *err_str;

  for(i = 0; i < 133; i++)
    {
      errno = i;
      err_str = strerror(errno);
      printf("Errno %d: %s\n", errno, err_str);
    }

  return 0;
}

List of Unix Error Codes
Errno 0:
Errno 1: Operation not permitted
Errno 2: No such file or directory
Errno 3: No such process
Errno 4: Interrupted system call
Errno 5: Input/output error
Errno 6: No such device or address
Errno 7: Argument list too long
Errno 8: Exec format error
Errno 9: Bad file descriptor
Errno 10: No child processes
Errno 11: Resource temporarily unavailable
Errno 12: Cannot allocate memory
Errno 13: Permission denied
Errno 14: Bad address
Errno 15: Block device required
Errno 16: Device or resource busy
Errno 17: File exists
Errno 18: Invalid cross-device link
Errno 19: No such device
Errno 20: Not a directory
Errno 21: Is a directory
Errno 22: Invalid argument
Errno 23: Too many open files in system
Errno 24: Too many open files
Errno 25: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Errno 26: Text file busy
Errno 27: File too large
Errno 28: No space left on device
Errno 29: Illegal seek
Errno 30: Read-only file system
Errno 31: Too many links
Errno 32: Broken pipe
Errno 33: Numerical argument out of domain
Errno 34: Numerical result out of range
Errno 35: Resource deadlock avoided
Errno 36: File name too long
Errno 37: No locks available
Errno 38: Function not implemented
Errno 39: Directory not empty
Errno 40: Too many levels of symbolic links
Errno 41: Unknown error 41
Errno 42: No message of desired type
Errno 43: Identifier removed
Errno 44: Channel number out of range
Errno 45: Level 2 not synchronized
Errno 46: Level 3 halted
Errno 47: Level 3 reset
Errno 48: Link number out of range
Errno 49: Protocol driver not attached
Errno 50: No CSI structure available
Errno 51: Level 2 halted
Errno 52: Invalid exchange
Errno 53: Invalid request descriptor
Errno 54: Exchange full
Errno 55: No anode
Errno 56: Invalid request code
Errno 57: Invalid slot
Errno 58: Unknown error 58
Errno 59: Bad font file format
Errno 60: Device not a stream
Errno 61: No data available
Errno 62: Timer expired
Errno 63: Out of streams resources
Errno 64: Machine is not on the network
Errno 65: Package not installed

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 Errno 66: Object is remote
Errno 67: Link has been severed
Errno 68: Advertise error
Errno 69: Srmount error
Errno 70: Communication error on send
Errno 71: Protocol error
Errno 72: Multihop attempted
Errno 73: RFS specific error
Errno 74: Bad message
Errno 75: Value too large for defined data type
Errno 76: Name not unique on network
Errno 77: File descriptor in bad state
Errno 78: Remote address changed
Errno 79: Can not access a needed shared library
Errno 80: Accessing a corrupted shared library
Errno 81: .lib section in a.out corrupted
Errno 82: Attempting to link in too many shared libraries
Errno 83: Cannot exec a shared library directly
Errno 84: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Errno 85: Interrupted system call should be restarted
Errno 86: Streams pipe error
Errno 87: Too many users
Errno 88: Socket operation on non-socket
Errno 89: Destination address required
Errno 90: Message too long
Errno 91: Protocol wrong type for socket
Errno 92: Protocol not available
Errno 93: Protocol not supported
Errno 94: Socket type not supported
Errno 95: Operation not supported
Errno 96: Protocol family not supported
Errno 97: Address family not supported by protocol
Errno 98: Address already in use
Errno 99: Cannot assign requested address
Errno 100: Network is down
Errno 101: Network is unreachable
Errno 102: Network dropped connection on reset
Errno 103: Software caused connection abort
Errno 104: Connection reset by peer
Errno 105: No buffer space available
Errno 106: Transport endpoint is already connected
Errno 107: Transport endpoint is not connected
Errno 108: Cannot send after transport endpoint shutdown
Errno 109: Too many references: cannot splice
Errno 110: Connection timed out
Errno 111: Connection refused
Errno 112: Host is down
Errno 113: No route to host
Errno 114: Operation already in progress
Errno 115: Operation now in progress
Errno 116: Stale NFS file handle
Errno 117: Structure needs cleaning
Errno 118: Not a XENIX named type file
Errno 119: No XENIX semaphores available
Errno 120: Is a named type file
Errno 121: Remote I/O error
Errno 122: Disk quota exceeded
Errno 123: No medium found
Errno 124: Wrong medium type
Errno 125: Operation canceled
Errno 126: Required key not available
Errno 127: Key has expired
Errno 128: Key has been revoked
Errno 129: Key was rejected by service
Errno 130: Owner died
Errno 131: State not recoverable
Errno 132: Unknown error 132

In my own tests, all errors past 131 seem to be unknown. They are listed in much the same way as the line beginning with "Errno 132".



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