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Re: afs_strerror()?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Love)
Sun Jun 21 15:53:22 1998
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From: Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
Cc: arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se
Subject: Re: afs_strerror()?
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Date: 21 Jun 1998 21:48:38 +0200
In-Reply-To: John Hawkinson's message of Sun, 21 Jun 1998 04:55:07 -0400
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John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU> writes:
> I'm sort of wondering if we should have one.
> Or perhaps an rx_strerror().
There exist a thing like this:
lib/ko/koerror.c:char *koerr_gettext(koerr_t err)
> > ./pts mem jhawk
> mem: pts: pts_name_to_id(..) returned 19270408
This is wrong, and koerror_gettext was older, the name is not really
that great, but it also does things like strerror(). Like a one
wayentry for all num2str errors.
> An rx_strerror() seems like it'd be the right thing here.
> Concurrance? Disagreement?
Yes, great. I'll try to fix it tonight.
Love
