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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:08:25 +0200
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gettext
Message-ID:  <20000626120825.T36017@zoe.bastard.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20000626102125.B3549@cichlids.cichlids.com>; from alex@big.endian.de on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:21:25AM %2B0200
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2000, Alexander Langer wrote:
> Thus spake Adrian Chadd (adrian@FreeBSD.ORG):
> 
> > person, but the way VMS (and Cisco, and I am a cisco person) reports
> > errors makes it very easy to take a flat text syslog output, and parse
> > the error lines ..)
> 
> Most error-outputs use strerror(3).
> 
> So maybe add these to strerror(3)?

Yes, but you can't guarantee that ENOENT is the same between two given
applications. And then, applications can use perror() or errx() or
the like to return their own errors, which you'd have to make multi-lingual,
and it becomes a nightmare.

You could modify strerror() to give multi-lingual errno error strings,
but as to each application, who knows ..



Adrian

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Adrian Chadd			Build a man a fire, and he's warm for the
<adrian@FreeBSD.org>		rest of the evening. Set a man on fire and
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