error: Manual Page

ERROR

NAME

error - print error message and quit

SYNOPSIS


extern char *progname;

void    error(format [ ,arg ] ... )
char    *str1;

DESCRIPTION

error prints a message to to the standard error and then terminates the current process. The message is prefixed with "sfs:" or the contents of the global variable "progname" if declared. The text of the message is made up from str1 and args, if present, with str1 containing the "printf" style format for the message, and str2 the coorresponding arguments.

error also deletes any temporary files created with sfschannel (see SFSLIB(SFS3)).

EXAMPLE


	#define PROGNAME "yourprog"
	char	*progname=PROGNAME;
	:
	error("cannot open file %s",filename);
	:
	error("process fails");

VERSION/AUTHOR

1.1 - Mark Huckvale

_{Fri Jul 09 14:54:16 2004}