RE: Account Request: perror

Perhaps I should have just sent a patch to Rasmus for exec.h/exec.c
for these? (And whomever has signal.c/signal.h or whatever)

It's nice as an extension for testing/debugging though...

It only took me ~5 years to get around to writing them. :-)

On Fri, September 22, 2006 3:00 pm, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> This shouldn't be an extension.
> Maybe it can be part of ext/pcnl or some other existing extension?
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Richard Lynch [mailto:ceo@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 8:39 AM
>> To: pecl-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [PECL-DEV] Account Request: perror
>>
>> Account Request
>>
>> Extension Name: perror
>>
>> Synopsis:
>>
>> After you do exec (et al) and get an error number, you
>> shouldn't have to pop out to a shell to do 'perror' to find
>> out what that error number means.
>>
>> This extension adds a very modest function 'strerror' which
>> returns the corresponding error message from the OS.
>>
>> >From the 'perror' man pages, it became blatantly obvious that
>> 'strsignal' was the exact same formula, so I tossed that in as well.
>>
>> Details:
>> Download and source and minimal documentation available here:
>> http://www.l-i-e.com/perror/
>>
>> Several folks on php-internals and php-general asked me to
>> add this to PECL when I posted it a couple months ago, and
>> I'm just now getting round to it, as I was buried under at
>> work for awhile.
>>
>> I'll be using the email:   lynch AT php DOT net for this project
>> (which I've had for years and under-utilize)
>>
>> I think I already have CVS access to Docs on php.net, so I
>> reckon you just need to change whatever flags I'd need to
>> keep 'perror' current, rather than add a new acount.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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