From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: itz@very.loosely.org (Ian Zimmerman)
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 00:22:14 -0700
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday,
 Dennis Ritchie! [ really sun vs dec/apollo --> X and NeWS ]
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On 2017-09-18 19:50, Larry McVoy wrote:

> So in the BitKeeper source, perror is redifined to my_perror which is
> this:
> 
> void    
> my_perror(char *file, int line, char *msg)

That is a different signature from perror, so I presume you mean you did
something along the lines of

#define perror(s) (my_perror(__FILE__, __LINE__, (s)))

Since this must obviously be a macro, I'm not sure I want it in libc;
macros are messy.

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