On Oct 24, 11:09pm, dholland-sourcechan...@netbsd.org (David Holland) wrote: -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/audiocfg
| On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 01:32:38PM +1000, matthew green 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() | > | > using perror() doesn't lead to fatal security flaws. | > | > i don't see any good reason to warn on it. | | The man page should, however, at least mention warn() and perhaps note | that warn() is preferred. I will attend to this. | | And, btw, the man page also claims that perror first appeared in | 4.4BSD. Is this really correct? completely wrong. It has been there as long as I can remember. SVR1, BSD4.1 is the first I used. But I bet it is older than that. thanks. christos
