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NAME

       gd_verbose_prefix — set the prefix on error messages printed by GetData

SYNOPSIS

       #include <getdata.h>

       int gd_verbose_prefix(DIRFILE *dirfile, const char *prefix);

DESCRIPTION

       The  gd_verbose_prefix()  sets the prefix printed before error messages output by the GetData library for
       the dirfile(5) database specified by dirfile.  If prefix is NULL, the current prefix (if any) is  deleted
       and no new prefix is saved.

       GetData  only  prints  error messages for a given Dirfile if opened along with the GD_VERBOSE flag, or if
       the flag has been subsequently set on the dirfile using gd_flags(3).  If  this  flag  is  not  set,  this
       function still updates the prefix, but GetData does not use it.

       If  GD_VERBOSE  is  set,  when  the  library encounters an error, it prints the supplied prefix (if any),
       followed immediately by the error message (which is the message returned by gd_error_string(3)), followed
       by a newline.  All output goes to the caller's standard error (stderr(3)).

       The dirfile argument must point to a valid DIRFILE object previously created by a call to gd_open(3).

RETURN VALUE

       Upon  successful  completion,  gd_verbose_prefix()  returns zero.  On error, it returns a negative-valued
       error code.  Possible error codes are:

       GD_E_ALLOC
               The library was unable to allocate memory.

       The error code is also stored in the DIRFILE object and may be retrieved after this function  returns  by
       calling   gd_error(3).    A   descriptive  error  string  for  the  error  may  be  obtained  by  calling
       gd_error_string(3).

HISTORY

       The gd_verbose_prefix() function appared in GetData-0.8.0.

       In GetData-0.10.0, the error return from this function changed from -1 to a negative-valued error code.

SEE ALSO

       gd_error(3), gd_error_string(3), gd_flags(3), gd_open(3), stderr(3), dirfile(5)