Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 09:55:28 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: Stanislav Sedov <stas@freebsd.org> 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: <e71790db0905220555g764f60ebtf53b0fdeecd2698b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090521132404.cc5be268.stas@FreeBSD.org> References: <200905191740.n4JHeMMU005087@svn.freebsd.org> <20090520200138.GA33344@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <e71790db0905201558u1c8e3e90n1fbbfc4011e22909@mail.gmail.com> <20090521132404.cc5be268.stas@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Stanislav Sedov <stas@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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.o= rg> wrote: >> >>Log: >> >> =A0Add a new program, perror, which takes an errno as a command line = argument >> >> =A0and outputs the associated textual message in the same way that >> >> =A0perror(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. --=20 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.
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