Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 13:24:04 +0400 From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> To: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r192398 - in head/usr.bin: . perror Message-ID: <20090521132404.cc5be268.stas@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <e71790db0905201558u1c8e3e90n1fbbfc4011e22909@mail.gmail.com> References: <200905191740.n4JHeMMU005087@svn.freebsd.org> <20090520200138.GA33344@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <e71790db0905201558u1c8e3e90n1fbbfc4011e22909@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 20 May 2009 19:58:20 -0300 "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> mentioned: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Peter Jeremy > <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote: > > On 2009-May-19 17:40:22 +0000, "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@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!
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