Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:33:35 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: FreeBSD Arch <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: On errno Message-ID: <49D3B37F.80509@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <FE53FDC4-6416-458C-A10C-C2C70A085C83@mac.com> References: <8321954E-5CFF-45F9-9F87-BE83659E4C8D@mac.com> <FE53FDC4-6416-458C-A10C-C2C70A085C83@mac.com>
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>>> wollman@ wrote: >>> But all this is really irrelevant if no other operating system or >>> standard adopts the interface. Interfaces which are peculiar to >>> FreeBSD are rarely useful. > > That's a very good point indeed. PHK's suggestion of plumbing this into err(), perror() and similar functions that implicitly read errno already would help here. Tim
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