On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Stanislav Sedov <s...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, 20 May 2009 19:58:20 -0300 > "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixma...@gmail.com> mentioned: > >> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Peter Jeremy >> <peterjer...@optushome.com.au> wrote: >> > On 2009-May-19 17:40:22 +0000, "George V. Neville-Neil" <g...@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. > > Why?
Because the program mimics the behavior of strerror: given an error number, return the corresponding string. -- 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. _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
