Hello Jesus, On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:36 PM, jesus.otero <jesus.otero@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > > Not sure if this is a bug, but, just in case... > > When searching how to print error messages without using perror, the man page > of perror says > > "The global error list sys_errlist[] indexed by errno can be used to obtain > the error message without the newline. The largest message number provided in > the table is sys_nerr -1. Be careful when directly accessing this list > because new error values may not have been added to sys_errlist[]." > > Searching for sys_errlist on the kernel includes pointed me to the file > <bits/sys_errlist.h> where it says that sys_errlist[] is deprecated, > recommending you to use strerror. Doing a google search confirm me this. > > Shouldn't this be reflected on perror's man page? Yes, I think you're right. I added the sentence "The use of sys_errlist[] is nowadays deprecated." to the man page. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
