On 06/01/10 20:02, Jim Meyering wrote:
Daniel Borkmann wrote:
I was wondering if it's possible to add a tiny little program (next to
true and false ;) ) into the gnu coreutils package? The program I've
written is called "errno" and does nothing less than writing an error
string according to the user-specified error number.
Very often, programs or kernel modules only show/log a return value, but
not the actual error message, so you manually have to look it up. This
_tiny_ tool helps doing this automatically ;)
I think it would rather fit into the coreutils than having it's own
distribution package. What do you think? (Source attached)
Well it is something I often want to lookup which I do with:
strerror() { python -c "import os; print os.strerror($1)"; }
Previously I used a shell script:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/strerror
It's one of those marginal cases.
Because I mainly need it when developing I'd be
inclined not to include it as a separate util.
Perhaps it's something for the contrib directory
we've previously mentioned.
cheers,
Pádraig.
