On 16/09/2007, at 10:33 PM, Luke Kendall wrote:
Rick Welykochy wrote:
Luke Kendall wrote:
Rick Welykochy wrote:
Any relation to perror() ?
http://www.penguin-soft.com/penguin/man/3/perror.html?manpath=/
man/man3/perror.3.inc
No, none whatsoever. :-) perror() is a system call for use in
programs. "error" is an executable for use from the command line or
scripts. If you have a program that processes a source file
(e.g. gcc
and .c files, or groff and the Mss for an article), and the program
reports lots of errors, then "error" can edit the source file to
insert
the etxt of each error just before the line that has the error.
Then
you edit the source file, visiting each error and fixing it up.
This
saves you from flipping between two files. It's one of those
traditional Unix small utilities that does one thing well.
An interesting detective challenge. I began searching on google
for the
following:
"error utility" "error message" "source code"
which produced 240 results. Chasing up one on the SLUG list ...
http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2003/05/msg00896.html
* To: Sydney Linux Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Subject: [SLUG] Anyone know where to find the "error" utility?
* From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 15:08:44 +1000 (EST)
Further searching turned up this page in the CVS attic for the
BSD utility:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/error/Attic/
And this:
http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2003/05/msg00909.html
where you proposed porting the thing to Linux.
And that is where I stopped searching.
Good luck. Perhaps you can find the sources you need in the Attic.
cheers
rickw
Strewth! You're right! When I followed teh attic link, and started
preparing the natural place to store the source files, I found the
directory already existed with all the sources in it already!
I guess that means I'd better get off my behind, and have a go!
It is still included as a FreeBSD port, so you if you need a distfile
try:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/dd/
error-20010616.tar.gz
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