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Deprecate perror, strerror functions?
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Deprecate perror, strerror functions? |
Date: |
Mon, 4 Apr 2011 13:22:31 -0400 |
On 2-Apr-2011, Rik wrote:
| Are these functions relevant anymore? It seems that they were an attempt
| to implement the corresponding C functions, but for user programs rather
| than system libraries.
Yes, that was probably not the best idea. Since they are probably not
used much at all, I'd say deprecate them in 3.4.1 for removal in 3.8,
same as for other functions deprecated in 3.4.0.
Thanks,
jwe