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From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: 'what' doesn't use perror to print open errors, Sys V/3.0
Summary: perror() is SVID level 2
Message-ID: <1110@vsi.COM>
Date: 29 Apr 89 15:33:46 GMT
References: <3759@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <3759@sugar.hackercorp.com>, karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
> Several years have elapsed, which should have been long enough to make all
> the programs distributed with Unix follow the perror() conventions that
> the manuals tell us our programs are to follow.

The perror() function has been SVID level 2 since 1985, which
means that it is no longer guaranteed to be supported after 1988.
I believe it will be in the next SVID (Issue 3), but it may go
away after that.

This matters, of course, only if you value the SVID.

     Steve

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