Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!gwyn@BRL-VLD.ARPA From: gwyn@BRL-VLD.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Least We Forget: MULTICS Message-ID: <506@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Sat, 28-Jul-84 07:59:31 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.506 Posted: Sat Jul 28 07:59:31 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Jul-84 01:20:54 EDT Lines: 11 From: Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)The idea of an improved, standardized error message function is a good one. Various implementations have appeared on USENIX tapes in the past. The problem is not so much in designing something more generally useful than perror(), but in getting universal acceptance of it. I wonder if AT&T will give serious consideration to suggestions like this now that they are supposedly more responsive to the marketplace. Unfortunately they seem to be getting sucked into targeting new work at the small system end user rather than at software developers.