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From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org>
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Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>,
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r192398 - in head/usr.bin: . perror
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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.org> wrote:
> >>Log:
> >>  Add a new program, perror, which takes an errno as a command line argument
> >>  and outputs the associated textual message in the same way that
> >>  perror(3) would if called within a program.
> 
> Rename it to "strerror", please.

Why?

> 
> > Given how easy it is to "grep <<errno>> /usr/include/sys/errno.h" or
> >  perl -e '$! = <<errno>>; print "$!\n";'
> > I'm not sure of the utility of this tool.  One downside is that
> >  man perror
> > will now return perror(1) instead of perror(3)
> 
> So does "man printf", which is a pity. It bytes me each time I'm using
> Vim and press "k" over the word. :-(
> 

You should teach vim to run `man 3 printf` instead of `printf`. It is 
a normal sort order that averyone expects.

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Stanislav Sedov
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