NAME

DCE::Status - Make sense of DCE status codes

SYNOPSIS

use DCE::Status;

$errstr = error_inq_text($status);

tie $status => DCE::Status;

DESCRIPTION

When a $scalar is tie'd to the DCE::Status class, it has a different value depending on the context it is evaluated in, similar to the magic $! variable. When evaluated in a numeric context, the numeric value is returns, otherwise, the string value obtained from dce_error_inq_text is returned.

EXPORTS

error_inq_text

Equivalent to the dce_error_inq_text function.

$errstr = error_inq_text($status);

AUTHOR

Doug MacEachern <dougm@osf.org>

SEE ALSO

perl(1), DCE::Registry(3), DCE::Login(3), DCE::ACL(3).