> From: Paul Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 00:09:40 EST > > Isn't using "strerror" in a check for POSIX sort of like mixing apples > and oranges. Yes, just as ISC mixed them. > Is this a check for the "strerror" function, a check for a POSIX library > or both? The latter. > If it's the latter, should there be two tests, one for "POSIX" > and another for "strerror"? Not particularly. Nobody would really want to build a portable application without the POSIX API on ISC UNIX. It's not worth worrying about. > If this is the case or if we are checking > just for POSIX, is there a <unique> POSIX function that could be > substituted for "strerror"? Perhaps. But we'd need an ISC system to find that out. Until someone files a bug report and says that strerror is wrong, and some other function is a better one, it's not worth worrying about this. And I doubt whether we'll ever have to worry about it. INTERACTIVE UNIX is dead, and has been dead for years. Time to move on. And I say this having worked with some of the people who wrote it, starting in 1977. They moved on long, long ago. _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
