Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Least We Forget: MULTICS Message-ID: <4154@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Jul-84 15:36:27 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.4154 Posted: Mon Jul 30 15:36:27 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Jul-84 15:36:27 EDT References: <506@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 17 > 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.... There is one possibility which might become a de facto standard if enough people use it: error() from Kernighan&Pike. We're using it here for everything new we do, and gradually retrofitting it (and a non-exiting version called "warning") into old programs. In general, one could do a lot worse than to open up Kernighan&Pike and start typing things in. K&P may be the closest look at Version 8 that we'll ever get... -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry