catopen(3C)catopen(3C)NAMEcatopen(), catclose() - open and close a message catalog for reading
SYNOPSISDESCRIPTION
The function opens a message catalog and returns a catalog descriptor.
The specifies the name of the message catalog being opened. A contain‐
ing a slash specifies a path name for the message catalog. Otherwise,
the environment variable is used (see environ(5)). If specifies more
than one path, returns the catalog descriptor for the first path on
which it is able to successfully open the specified message catalog.
If does not exist in the environment, or if a message catalog cannot be
opened for any path, uses a system-wide default path. The default is
affected by if the value of is If the value of is zero, the default is
affected by the environment variable See environ(5) for details.
If is invoked from or programs with owner root, the environment vari‐
able is not directly used to locate message catalogs. Instead, the
paths which are available both in the configuration file and environ‐
ment variable are considered to locate message catalogs. See
nlspath(4) for details.
Example: If the environment variable is set to:
and the configuration file has an entry:
only path is considered for locating catalog files. This feature is
provided only for backward compatibility for those or root programs
which are depending on the environment variable. All new or root pro‐
grams should not depend on the environment variable and should only use
absolute path names.
A message catalog descriptor remains valid in a process until the
process closes it or until a successful call to one of the functions.
A change in the setting of the category may invalidate existing open
catalogs.
A file descriptor is used to implement the message catalog descriptor
and the close-on-exec flag is set for the message catalog descriptor
(see fcntl(2)).
If is zero, the environment variable is used to locate the catalog. If
is the category is used to locate the message catalog only if a suc‐
cessful call to has been made prior to the call to The result of set‐
ting to any other value is undefined.
The function closes the message catalog a message catalog descriptor
returned from an earlier successful call to
RETURN VALUE
Upon success, returns a message catalog descriptor. Otherwise, returns
a value of (nl_catd)−1 and sets to indicate the error.
Upon success, returns zero. Otherwise, returns −1 and sets to indicate
the error.
ERRORS
fails without opening a message catalog and sets for the last path
attempted under any of the following conditions:
A component of the path prefix denies search permission, or
read permission is denied for the named
file.
The maximum number of file descriptors allowed are currently
open.
The length of the specified path name exceeds
bytes, or the length of a component of
the path name exceeds bytes while is in
effect.
The system file table is full.
The named catalog does not exist or the path is null.
A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
can be used to provide default messages when called following a failed
(see catgets(3C)). returns its parameter if it is passed an invalid
catalog descriptor.
fails if the following is true:
is not a valid open message catalog descriptor.
WARNINGS
When using does not provide a default value for
AUTHOR
and were developed by HP.
FILES
Include file containing native language types.
Message catalog default path for core HP-UX products only.
SEE ALSOfcntl(2), catgets(3C), setlocale(3C), nlspath(4), environ(5),
thread_safety(5).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCEcatopen(3C)