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

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Tue May 2 13:31:32 AEST 1989


>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.



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