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

[Stephen J. Friedl]

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.

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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