From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 22 12:55:31 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 557B8106566B; Fri, 22 May 2009 12:55:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unixmania@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f168.google.com (mail-fx0-f168.google.com [209.85.220.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3677C8FC23; Fri, 22 May 2009 12:55:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unixmania@gmail.com) Received: by fxm12 with SMTP id 12so1704991fxm.43 for ; Fri, 22 May 2009 05:55:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=AHsIFxlrYPALkwpjSrcEUv+waYHuQNEKKdjW4VtMgl8=; b=ETN9EPyY3OnIdKTldIt+FDpl0OyxPBJ2UzHNZ6eEcwrH7/7jFZasIlvvFrehVRYH7o Rp9HtD34xXadXwp0aEwSJ7lvbrqybjEUIIKvaGWcAIiyr2i3lZ0inSGl4E3Uc/nPL5zX zrtrcfqgsMZzqzXELA4WeK2dH7qLsyLduePAo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=B1RvVEkA/tzGnSwqk6HlgGluswb8n91ujWYFRbGXHkRB6rD+vPvSpzPF5GmMHmXsc2 Z9CvRXs70qcGLvRzughimgd7mYKeMGIvgVxAdNvqUUI7XOXP/WXFqdhKtpOU8E8ZA3D6 3oMFYPfmLIJdGIQyBngZgjA6+N6DsNQsAsVe4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.57.138 with SMTP id c10mr3582851bkh.56.1242996929027; Fri, 22 May 2009 05:55:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090521132404.cc5be268.stas@FreeBSD.org> References: <200905191740.n4JHeMMU005087@svn.freebsd.org> <20090520200138.GA33344@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20090521132404.cc5be268.stas@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 09:55:28 -0300 Message-ID: From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" To: Stanislav Sedov Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Peter Jeremy , svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, "George V. Neville-Neil" Subject: Re: svn commit: r192398 - in head/usr.bin: . perror X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 12:55:31 -0000 On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Stanislav Sedov wrote: > On Wed, 20 May 2009 19:58:20 -0300 > "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" mentioned: > >> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Peter Jeremy >> wrote: >> > On 2009-May-19 17:40:22 +0000, "George V. Neville-Neil" 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.