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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: <1532@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 2 May 89 03:31:32 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>According to the manual pages for Microport V/386 3.0e, fopen returns
>an error status in errno and perror is defined to work for system
>calls and library functions.
>
>I don't have the manual pages for other systems handy, but I seem to
>recall similar wording for BSD and SunOS.

No, I checked the 4.3-tahoe and SunOS 4.0 "fopen" man pages; they
mention "errno" nowhere.