On 11 Sep 2010, at 23:44, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <5217ce1f-57c2-40bc-9281-50f90bba0...@zhadum.org.uk>,
> Matthias Scheler <t...@zhadum.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> On 6 Sep 2010, at 23:35, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>>> Should we make perror() produce a warning so people will stop using it?
>>
>> No, as it is not a NetBSD specific API.
>
> Neither is gets()
Well, but gets() is clearly broken by design, perror(3) isn't. And the obvious
replacement for gets(3) is fgets(3) which is portable. I don't think that
warnx(3), etc. are portable.
Kind regards
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Matthias Scheler http://zhadum.org.uk/
