On 01/07/10 12:52, Daniel Borkmann wrote: > >> Sorry, but this is a developer tool >> > Despite of the language such a util is written in, I was > wondering if it's really only a developer tool? Aren't there enough > programs out there that do not ever print their errors correctly? > No question that this would be a bad style, but nevertheless, it > isn't rarely. >
Indeed. I usually float between different customers, with different *IX brands -- of course, not all of them use coreutils, but that's life. Not all of them deploy PERL, or Python, or MySQL (which provides 'perror' for that). But, if I could rely on all that deploy coreutils to have something like that it would make my life much more simpler. Of course, it can still be a contrib-type of thing -- but it would be there.
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