2008/10/21 Peter Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Fellow Coders, > > I'm working on a idea I've been thinking about for some time. It is a > library to decipher errno values for system calls. Think of it as a set > of system call specific strerror functions. > > Examples and source code on the web site: libexplain.sf.net > > I'm planning on using it for several of my other projects. > Should you have the time to look at the 0.0 incarnation, I'd like to > know if you would use it yourself? and what you would like to see in > there that would make you jump even faster? or is it cute but useless?
I think it's totally awesome, in the category of "why hasn't this existed for n years" awesome. Plus it'll bind nicely to languages with, like, exception handling, and stuff. > i18n will be interesting, too. open("no-such-dir/some-file", like, O_RDONLY) failed, mostly, No such file or directory (2, like, ENOENT) because directory "no-such-dir" does not exist openway("onay-uchsay-irday/omesay-ilefay", Oway_ONLYRDay) ailedfay, oNay uchsay ilefay orway irectoryday (2, ENOENTway) ecausebay irectoryday "onay-uchsay-irday" oesday otnay existway K. -> oesday otnay existway! _______________________________________________ coders mailing list coders@slug.org.au http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/coders