Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 19:58:20 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r192398 - in head/usr.bin: . perror Message-ID: <e71790db0905201558u1c8e3e90n1fbbfc4011e22909@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090520200138.GA33344@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <200905191740.n4JHeMMU005087@svn.freebsd.org> <20090520200138.GA33344@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote: > On 2009-May-19 17:40:22 +0000, "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@freebsd.org> wrote: >>Log: >> Add a new program, perror, which takes an errno as a command line argument >> and outputs the associated textual message in the same way that >> perror(3) would if called within a program. Rename it to "strerror", please. > Given how easy it is to "grep <<errno>> /usr/include/sys/errno.h" or > perl -e '$! = <<errno>>; print "$!\n";' > I'm not sure of the utility of this tool. One downside is that > man perror > will now return perror(1) instead of perror(3) So does "man printf", which is a pity. It bytes me each time I'm using Vim and press "k" over the word. :-( -- My preferred quotation of Robert Louis Stevenson is "You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs". Not because I like the omelettes, but because I like the sound of eggs being broken.
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