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Article #1073Re: 'what' doesn't use perror to print open errors, Sys V/3.0
From: Stephen J. Friedl
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1989 15:33
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1989 15:33
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In article <3759@sugar.hackercorp.com>, karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
> Several years have elapsed, which should have been long enough to make all
> the programs distributed with Unix follow the perror() conventions that
> the manuals tell us our programs are to follow.
The perror() function has been SVID level 2 since 1985, which
means that it is no longer guaranteed to be supported after 1988.
I believe it will be in the next SVID (Issue 3), but it may go
away after that.
This matters, of course, only if you value the SVID.
Steve
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!ames!lll-winken!uunet!vsi!friedl From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: 'what' doesn't use perror to print open errors, Sys V/3.0 Summary: perror() is SVID level 2 Message-ID: <1110@vsi.COM> Date: 29 Apr 89 15:33:46 GMT References: <3759@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA Lines: 19