Alan Cox [off-list ref] wrote:

I was wondering if at least there was some co-ordination going on so that
functions like perror() produced sensible answers. Otherwise it's
debatable if its actually an improvement for the poor end user ?

Fair point.  That's why I cc'd the messages to linux-api@, but I'm not sure who
actually reads it, besides Michael Kerrisk.  I guess it's probably a good idea
to wave my suggestions on the glibc list at least.

David