The function gss_display_status() translates GSS-API status codes into text format, allowing them to be displayed to a user or put in a text log. Because gss_display_status() only displays one status code at a time, and some functions can return multiple status conditions, it should be invoked as part of a loop. As long as gss_display_status() indicates a non-zero status code (in Example B–1, the value returned in the message_context parameter), another status code is available for the function to fetch.
OM_uint32 message_context; OM_uint32 status_code; OM_uint32 maj_status; OM_uint32 min_status; gss_buffer_desc status_string; ... message_context = 0; do { maj_status = gss_display_status( &min_status, status_code, GSS_C_GSS_CODE, GSS_C_NO_OID, &message_context, &status_string); fprintf(stderr, "%.*s\n", \ (int)status_string.length, \ (char *)status_string.value); gss_release_buffer(&min_status, &status_string,); } while (message_context != 0);