On errno

[clemens fischer]

On Tue-2009/03/31-08:20 Garrett Wollman wrote in
gmane.os.freebsd.architechture
(MID <200903310620.n2V6Kudd072936 at hergotha.csail.mit.edu>):

> [on strings accompanying errno]
> 
> But all this is really irrelevant if no other operating system or
> standard adopts the interface.  Interfaces which are peculiar to
> FreeBSD are rarely useful.

plan9 already has that:  programs return a string instead of a number.
plan9port (user space implementation for unix) takes an empty string to
mean SUCCESS and anything else as FAILURE.


clemens