The ea_error() function returns the error value of the last failure recorded by the invocation of one of the functions of the extended accounting library, libexacct.
RETURN VALUES
EXR_CORRUPT_FILE
A function failed because the file was not a valid exacct file.
EXR_EOF
A function detected the end of the file, either when reading forwards or backwards through the file.
EXR_INVALID_BUF
When unpacking an object, an invalid unpack buffer was specified.
EXR_INVALID_OBJ
The object type passed to the function is not valid for the requested operation, for example passing a group object to ea_set_item(3EXACCT).
EXR_NO_CREATOR
When creating a new file no creator was specified, or when opening a file for reading the creator value did not match the value in the file.
EXR_NOTSUPP
An unsupported type of access was attempted, for example attempting to write to a file that was opened read-only.
EXR_OK
The function completed successfully.
EXR_SYSCALL_FAIL
A system call invoked by the function failed. The errno variable contains the error value set by the underlying call.
EXR_UNKN_VERSION
The file referred to by name uses an exacct file version that cannot be processed by this library.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
