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Date:      Fri, 22 May 2009 13:12:45 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        unixmania@gmail.com, danfe@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, peterjeremy@optushome.com.au, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, stas@FreeBSD.org, gnn@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r192398 - in head/usr.bin: . perror
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905221312180.17322@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090522205615.G2353@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <e71790db0905201558u1c8e3e90n1fbbfc4011e22909@mail.gmail.com> <20090521132404.cc5be268.stas@FreeBSD.org> <20090521110115.GA50355@FreeBSD.org> <20090521.085256.-1989816394.imp@bsdimp.com> <20090522195717.U22330@delplex.bde.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905221139020.17322@fledge.watson.org> <20090522205615.G2353@besplex.bde.org>

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On Fri, 22 May 2009, Bruce Evans wrote:

> On Fri, 22 May 2009, Robert Watson wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 22 May 2009, Bruce Evans wrote:
>
>>> What about with "man errno".  Man pages are slightly more likely to be 
>> ...
>> ...  On the topic of man pages though -- I was interested to see that Mac 
>> OS X does not ship with an errno(2), despite shipping with a BSD-derived 
>> errno.h.
>
> Under FreeBSD, errno.2 is only a link to intro.2.  This link was there in 
> libc/sys/Makefile.inc rev.1.1.  More than half of intro.2 is about error 
> numbers.

And, indeed, there is an intro(2) on Mac OS X that's based on ours (I 
believe), just not an errno(2) symlink.

Thanks,

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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