gripes about error reporting

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.UUCP
Wed May 14 08:20:13 AEST 1986


While not wanting to run down what Chris Torek has done, or discourage
people from using it (*any* serious effort to do good error-handling is
a win over most existing Unix programs!), it is most unfortunate that
it uses the same name as the error() routine in Kernighan&Pike, but with
a different and incompatible calling sequence and semantics.
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