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Subject: Re: On errno
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>>> wollman@ wrote:
>>> But all this is really irrelevant if no other operating system or
>>> standard adopts the interface.  Interfaces which are peculiar to
>>> FreeBSD are rarely useful.
> 
> That's a very good point indeed.

PHK's suggestion of plumbing this into err(), perror()
and similar functions that implicitly read errno already
would help here.

Tim