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| author | gnn <gnn@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-05-19 17:40:22 +0000 |
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| committer | gnn <gnn@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-05-19 17:40:22 +0000 |
| commit | b1a1ec04213e8ce59407b25e067db896b7b61b3e (patch) | |
| tree | e3a5afac956eb44ef6300380a76cd19f4b035e05 /usr.bin/perror/perror.1 | |
| parent | 1fbbbacfdb6be0a61fe7d733939f2edd984a5093 (diff) | |
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Add a new program, perror, which takes an errno as a command line argument
and outputs the associated textual message in the same way that
perror(3) would if called within a program.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/perror/perror.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/perror/perror.1 | 50 |
1 files changed, 50 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/perror/perror.1 b/usr.bin/perror/perror.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7faf77f --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.bin/perror/perror.1 @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Advanced Computing Technologies LLC +.\" Written by: George V. Neville-Neil <gnn@FreeBSD.org> +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd May 12, 2009 +.Dt PERROR 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm perror +.Nd "print an error number as a string" +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Op Ar number +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +program takes a raw errno value and prints it as a string. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr perror 3 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +program first appeared in +.Fx 8.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An George V. Neville-Neil |
