> From: Peter Seebach <seebs@solon.com>
> Message-Id: <199505200008.TAA07164@solutions.solon.com>
> Subject: Re: lib/1064: sys_errlist and sys_nerr are not documented

> I thought sys_errlist was deprecated, and that programs that used it
> were to be seen as Evil, just like those that use _doprnt.

I dunno; if so, they should still be documented if they exist.


> After all, POSIX does specify a way to get at that information
> generically; shouldn't we strongly deprecate the practice of poking
> about in system internals?

Then move them to libcompat.

Incidently,

usr.bin/make/util.c
usr.sbin/cron/compat.c 
usr.sbin/mrouted/main.c

still use sys_errlist...

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John Hawkinson
jhawk@panix.com