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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: 'what' doesn't use perror to print open errors, Sys V/3.0
Message-ID: <1531@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 2 May 89 03:30:05 GMT
References: <3759@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1110@vsi.COM>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>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.

And then again, it may not.  "perror" is in the pANS for C, so even if
AT&T rips it out of the SVID, vendors will probably have to provide it
anyway in their C implementations.