'what' doesn't use perror to print open errors, Sys V/3.0

[Ubben Greg]

In article <10156 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> (1) "what" uses fopen() to open the file.  perror() is inappropriate
> except when a system call reports failure.  fopen() is not a system call.
> ...

I regularly use perror() to report the failure of an fopen().  It works on
all the systems I've used because, of course, the fopen() doesn't make any
other system calls after the open().  Is this really a bad thing to do?
confirm: 

					-- Greg Ubben
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