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? > > > Given how easy it is to "grep <<errno>> /usr/include/sys/errno.h" or > > perl -e '$! = <<errno>>; print "$!\n";' > > I'm not sure of the utility of this tool. One downside is that > > man perror > > will now return perror(1) instead of perror(3) > > So does "man printf", which is a pity. It bytes me each time I'm using > Vim and press "k" over the word. :-( > You should teach vim to run `man 3 printf` instead of `printf`. It is a normal sort order that averyone expects. -- Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE !DSPAM:4a151db6994291957320619! _______________________________________________ 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"
