From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-03-17T00:14:16+09:00
Subject: Re: mapping $? to text message

Hi,

In message "mapping $? to text message"
    on 03/03/16, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

|How do you go from $? (which refers to nil or a Process::Status 
|instance) to a text message, sorta like perror(3) does?

IIRC, perror(3) prints message corresponding to errno, not return
status, right?  If there's a portable way to get text message from
return status, I'd be glad to add the feature.

							matz.