'what' doesn't use perror to print open errors, Sys V/3.0
Doug Gwyn
gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Sat Apr 29 11:53:47 AEST 1989
In article <3759 at sugar.hackercorp.com> karl at 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.
(1) "what" uses fopen() to open the file. perror() is inappropriate
except when a system call reports failure. fopen() is not a system call.
(2) SCCS was developed long ago and hasn't been modernized.
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