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From: rml@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Lenk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: too many enumerated types?
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Date: 28 Feb 89 22:51:08 GMT
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In article <1049@vsi.COM>, friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:

>     What does POSIX say about perror(3)?

The ANSI C standard includes perror(); it leaves the text of messages
implementation-defined.  POSIX (1003.1) requires perror() by reference
to the ANSI C standard.  I think we can expect it to be around for a
long time.  That doesn't mean that other (possibly better, possibly not)
interfaces for printing error messages won't come about, and perhaps
even become standard.

		Bob Lenk
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