Re: [PATCH] Redirect on Error

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Sascha Schumann wrote: > On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Stig S. Bakken wrote: > > > On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 14:57, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > > > On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Edin Kadribasic wrote: > > > > On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Maxim Maletsky wrote: > > > > > I rather propose. And, it seems to interest many on the list. > > > > > > > > Don't forget that there seem to be many who strongly opose your > > > > suggestion. > > > > > > Myself included. > > > > -1 on localized error messages > > +1 on errno-style error codes > > -1 on errno-style error codes. They are not versatile > enough or easy to manage. They are a lot more versatile and manageable than having to use substring/regexp matching on human-readable text. What I'm going for here is a way for scripts to detect _why_ fopen fails, other than checking the error message. If we do get localized error messages at one point, this is even more important. Do you have any other suggestions? - Stig