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Date:      Thu, 22 May 1997 17:19:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Porting question 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970522171745.2087B-100000@Journey2.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <E0wUbGF-0000bf-00@rover.village.org>

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On Thu, 22 May 1997, Warner Losh wrote:

> What's wrong with using strerror() instead?  And hacking the makefiles
> on really old crufty systems to include a short function that returns
> things from sys_errlist?  It is a heck of a lot more portable and much
> easier to maintain.

They are functionally the exact same thing.  Use strerror if you want.  I 
was trying to demonstrate the method I use to catch and fix changes.

> 
> Warner
> 
> 
> 
> 

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